Gaya
loc · Latin script
Meaning: worth going to; worth having
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Gaya is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 88K
- NLNetherlands1 in 114K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gaya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gäÿã in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)worth going to; worth having. wealth; household; offspring; sky.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 400 | Gaya | 74 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Gäÿã | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Gaya | 45 |
| IT Italy | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 2 | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 254K | 25 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 213 | — | 61 |
| NL Netherlands | 151 | 1 in 114K | 144 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 8as Guya | 1 in 94K | 8 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gaya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ariver (P); Annapurna (N); Hakini (N); Indraksi
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
» name of many men (M, P); Krsna (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, A Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In syb, maternal uncle ([Churchill 1913](Source#cldf:churchill1913))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Spanish, feminine singular of gayo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Juan Antonio Gaya Tovarb. 1876ESSpanish professor, physician and politician (1876-1936)
- Samuel Gili Gayab. 1892ESSpanish philologist (1892-1976)
- Ramón Gayab. 1910ESSpanish artist (1910-2005)
- Joan Manuel Nadal i Gayab. 1920ESCatalan engineer and politician (1920-2013)
- Arturo Gayab. 1956ESSpanish journalist
- Eiji Gayab. 1969JPJapanese association football player
- Ariadna Gayab. 1992ESSpanish actress and model
- Gaya Merbahb. 1994DZassociation football player
- Carlos Gayaactor
- Jordi Gaya MasanaESSpanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gaya come from?
- worth going to; worth having. wealth; household; offspring; sky. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- What does the name Gaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: worth going to; worth having.
- In which country does Gaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Gaya in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaya.
- How common is the name Gaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Gaya in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.