Minaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Minaya, a town in Albacete province
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 87th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 786(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.1K
- ESSpain1 in 27K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 786 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Minaya, a town in Albacete province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minaya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #314 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Minaya | 77 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #87 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 786 | — | Minaya | 58 |
| US United States | — | 2,425 | 1 in 137K | 2.8K | Minaya | 191 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,863 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Minaya | 93 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Minaya | 21 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | Minaya | 25 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
- Elizabeth Leónb. 1957PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Omar Minayab. 1958USDominican Republic baseball player, manager and executive
- Modesto Figueroa Minayab. 1963PEPeruvian politician
- Esdras Ricardo Medina Minayab. 1967PEPeruvian politician
- Leo Minayab. 1984USAmerican actor
- DJ Peligrob. 1987PEnot in their usual namePeruvian DJ and record producer
- Juan Minayab. 1990DODominican professional baseball pitcher
- Diego Minayab. 1990PEPeruvian association football player
- Justin Minayab. 1999USAmerican basketball player
- Gloria Minayataxonomist, active in 1978
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,729 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,572 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,568 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,509 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Minaya mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Minaya, a town in Albacete province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Minaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Minaya in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minaya.
- How common is the name Minaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,425 people named Minaya in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
- How common is Minaya compared with other names?
- In Peru, Minaya is the 314th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minayaThe 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, “Minaya” — the 314th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.