Ghiya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A type of squash (gourd) used in Indian cooking
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ghiya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 8M(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 41K
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.5M
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.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A type of squash (gourd) used in Indian cooking.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Ghiya | 1 |
| IN India | 165 | 1 in 8M | 165 | Ghiya | 72 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Ghiya | 110 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Ghiya | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 1 | Ghiya | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Ghiya 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 tgo, stone axe
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 165 | #20,265 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #22,227 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ghiya mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of squash (gourd) used in Indian cooking. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ghiya?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡijə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ghiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 791 people named Ghiya in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghiya.
- How common is the name Ghiya?
- In India, the national register counted 165 people named Ghiya, about 1 in 8.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghiyaThe 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, “Ghiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.