Loay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 12K
- JOJordan≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, 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)
Loay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #971 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Loay | 86 |
| JO Jordan | #732 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Loay | 56 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Loay | 80 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Loay | 20 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Loay | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Loay | 56 |
| ES Spain | — | 278 | 1 in 180K | 278 | Loay | 14 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Lu'ayy ibn Ghalibb. 274SAnot in their usual nameancestor of Islamic prophet Muhammad of Arabia
- Luai al-Atassib. 1926SYnot in their usual name2nd President of the Syrian Arab Republic (1926–2003)
- Louay Husseinb. 1960SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician and writer (1960–2022)
- Loay Alshareefb. 1982SASaudi Arabian actor, peace activist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 278 | #6,997 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 238 | #3,662 |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- How do you pronounce Loay?
- A machine transcription gives /ləeɪ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Loay a male or female name?
- Loay is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Loay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Loay in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loay.
- How common is the name Loay?
- In Spain, the national register counted 278 people named Loay, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
- How common is Loay compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Loay is the 971st most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Loay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loayThe 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, “Loay” — the 971st most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.