Ghaya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: purposeful
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɑjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghaya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Arab Emirates than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 24K
- QAQatar≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Arab Emirates (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
purposeful
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghaya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE United Arab Emirates | #886 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ghaya | 40 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Ghaya | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Ghaya | 14 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 521K | — | Ghaya | 12 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Ghaya | 6 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Ghaya | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Ghaya | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | Ghaya | 4 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Ghaya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, apex, limit
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ghaya mean, and where does it come from?
- purposeful Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Ghaya?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑjə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Ghaya a male or female name?
- Ghaya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ghaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 990 people named Ghaya in the United Arab Emirates, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghaya.
- How common is the name Ghaya?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Ghaya, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Ghaya compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Ghaya is the 886th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ghaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghayaThe 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, “Ghaya” — the 886th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.