Nalay
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Nalay is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. Nalay is also written নারায়ন in Bengali, ନାରାୟଣ in Odia and นารายัน in Thai.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.4Kas Narayan(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 8.9Kfew recordsas Narayan
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 15Kas Narayan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nalay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #594 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 named Narayan, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Narayan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nalay in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Odia and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Narayan in IN India, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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)Nalay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #48 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 30K | Narayan | 265 |
| BD Bangladesh | #589 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Narayan | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,425as Narayan | 1 in 233K | 3.2K | Narayan | 295 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Narayan | 32 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Narayan | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Narayan | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nalay a male or female name?
- Nalay is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Nalay?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Narayan in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, United States, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nalay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,425 people named Narayan in 2020, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
- How common is Nalay compared with other names?
- In India, Nalay is the 48th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nalayThe 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, “Nalay” — ranked 452nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.