Huya
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: the Wayuu rain god
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/həjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 166K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 290K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 810K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 166K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of huir:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Huya is read
(measured from records)Huya is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
the Wayuu rain god
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
inflection of huir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili9.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Huya in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Huya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Huya | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 810K | — | Huya | 8 |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | Huya | 44 |
| CA Canada | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Huya | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Huya | 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. 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)Huya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, used in the ph. h. munda meaning to run off at the bowels, have diarrhoea.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Turkish, singular dative of huy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cbk, shame
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csi, four
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)Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Where does the name Huya come from?
- inflection of huir: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Huya?
- A machine transcription gives /həjə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Huya mean?
- In English, the Wayuu rain god
- In which country does Huya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 353 people named Huya in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huya.
- How common is the name Huya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 350 people in Tanzania have Huya as their first surname, about 1 in 166 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Huya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huyaThe 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, “Huya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.