Naya
loc · Latin script
Meaning: wisdom; doctrine. conduct; behaviour; good; management; prudence; maxim
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/naɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naya is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 361Kas นิยะ(inferred from the name graph)
- YTMayotte≈1 in 5.5K
- ESSpain1 in 25K
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 Naya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,027 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mayotte, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled นยา in TH Thailand, Niya in US United States and Nayá in BR Brazil.
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(measured from records)
wisdom; doctrine. conduct; behaviour; good; management; prudence; maxim.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,027 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Naya | 105 |
| AR Argentina | — | 721 | 1 in 63K | 721 | — | 52 |
| FR France | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 261K | 4.7K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 908K | 614 | Nayá | 58 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 4.4K | Niya | 118 |
| TH Thailand | #371 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 361K | #287,776 | นยา | 36 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 5 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 44 | — | — |
2,027 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Naya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Naya (m.fl. former) kan vara ett indiskt namn med betydelsen ’förnyelse’. Det kan också vara en skrivform av Nia, ett namn med rötter i såväl swahili som walesiska där det betyder ’syfte’ respektive ’klar’. Nia och Naya är båda relativt populära som namn i USA idag. Även ett arabiskt namn, ofta skrivet Najah, finns, med betydelsen ’framgång’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
name of many men (P); Balarama (N); Kala (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In dag, to sit down heavily or loosely (always with reference to a large person); used with ‘zini’. ? semantically-auxiliary verb
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Danish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Naja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, An exclamation to get attention from a girl.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlo Nayab. 1816ITItalian photographer (1816-1882)
- Tomoichi Nayab. 1909JPJapanese teacher
- Xoán Acuña Nayab. 1923ESSpanish footballer (1923-2001)
- Gorō Nayab. 1929JPJapanese voice actor (1929–2013)
- Rokurō Nayab. 1932JPJapanese actor and narrator (1932–2014)
- Hiromi Nayab. 1939JPJapanese lawyer
- Taihō Kōkib. 1940JPnot in their usual nameJapanese sumo wrestler and the 48th Yokozuna (1940-2013)
- Naya Riverab. 1987USAmerican actress and singer (1987–2020)
- Naya Tapperb. 1994USAmerican rugby union player (1994-)
- Naya Desir-Johnsonactress
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)
Attested in 87 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,401 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,401 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 721 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 221 | #84,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 216 | #91,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 202 | #85,996 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Naya have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Naya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naya.
- What does the name Naya mean, and where does it come from?
- wisdom; doctrine. conduct; behaviour; good; management; prudence; maxim. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Naya?
- A machine transcription gives /naɪə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Naya?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,027 people named Naya, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Naya compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Naya is the 371st most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Naya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nayaThe 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, “Naya” — the 371st most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.