Ishaya
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/iʃɑja/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Ishaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 134 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- FIFinland1 in 242K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 486K
- USUnited States1 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). 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)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 242K (inferred from the name graph)
134 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ishaya
- Swahili:/iʃɑja/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/ishaja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Ishaya is found
(measured from records)Ishaya 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 | 134 | 1 in 2.5M | 161 | Ishaya | 38 |
| FI Finland | 23 | 1 in 242K | 23 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 76M | — | Ishaya | 19 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Ishaya | 7 |
134 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ishaya Dare Akaub. 1946NGa prominent Nigerian public official and peace advocate
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ishaya?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /iʃɑja/; in Indonesian /ishaja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ishaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 134 people named Ishaya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ishaya. After it come Finland, Sweden and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ishaya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ishaya is densest in Finland — about 1 in 242 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ishaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 134 people named Ishaya in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ishayaThe 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, “Ishaya” — ranked 115151st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.