Hayo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Ji-ma class|ma class_((VI))]] inflected form of hiyo

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hayo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KEKenya≈1 in 173K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 210K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 318K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈520 people, est.

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)

Kenya, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Ji-ma class|ma class_((VI))]] inflected form of hiyo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hayo 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.

Where Hayo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈520 est.≈1 in 210K—Hayo20
KE Kenya≈310 est.≈1 in 173K—Hayo5
DE Germany≈190 est.≈1 in 427K—Hayo60
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.7MlistedHayo84
ZA South Africa≈110 est.≈1 in 520K—Hayo4
IL Israel≈27 est.≈1 in 318K—Hayo7
PL Poland21 in 19M2—1

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hayo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hayõ

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines

    Also written Hâyo

  • Hebrew given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Also written היו, Hayu, Hyu

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hayo 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 abp, fluid that comes out of a sore; sap from a tree

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In mpi, grasshopper

    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)

1850190019502000Hayo Folkerts, b. 1871Taco Hayo Milo, b. 1906Hayo Vierck, b. 1939Hayo Freitag, b. 1950Hayo Bensdorp, b. 1968Hayo Boerema, b. 1972

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)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Hayo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#336,856
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

What does the name Hayo mean, and where does it come from?
[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Ji-ma class|ma class_((VI))]] inflected form of hiyo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Hayo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 520 people named Hayo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hayo.
How common is the name Hayo?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Hayo in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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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, “Hayo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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