Kayala

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kəjɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 668K(measured from records)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 52K
  • USUnited States≈1 in 7.7M

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.

India (measured from records)

1,986 people

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kayala 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 Kayala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,9861 in 668K2KKayala47
TZ Tanzania≈1,100 est.≈1 in 52K—Kayala7
US United States≈43 est.≈1 in 7.7M123Kayala26
BR Brazil≈4 est.≈1 in 53M127——
PL Poland31 in 13M3——

1,986 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)

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

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Kayalá

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Tanzania, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kaya-La, Kayàla

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kaẏāla

32 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalआदरणीय Kayala जी,Respected Kayala ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Kayala जी,Hi Kayala, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kayala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.6K#927
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2K#3,170
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#268,152

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Kayala?
A machine transcription gives /kəjɑɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Kayala have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Kayala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayala.
How common is the name Kayala?
In India, the national register counted 1,986 people named Kayala, about 1 in 668 thousand 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, “Kayala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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