Gays
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Gays is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Gays is also written Гейс in Cyrillic.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.1Mfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 18Mfew records
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 Gays 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
194,246 named Hayes, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gays in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hayes in US United States, BE Belgium and Гейс in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gays is found
(measured from records)Gays 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 194,246as Hayes | 1 in 1.7K | 194K | Hayes | 54 |
| ES Spain | 385as Hayes | 1 in 130K | 385 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 383as Hayes | 1 in 119K | 383 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 301as Gijs | 1 in 39K | 306 | Hayes | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 712K | — | Гейс | 75 |
| NO Norway | 152as Hayes | 1 in 36K | 152 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 164 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 34as Hayes | 1 in 3.3K | 34 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 21as Hayes | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | — |
194,246 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Gays is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, guys (Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.) (see usage notes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, masculine plural of gay
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gays?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 194 thousand people named Hayes, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Argentina, Belgium and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gays?
- In the United States, the national register counted 194,246 people named Hayes in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gays?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaysThe 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, “Gays” — ranked 117th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.