Nayaka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: leader. lord; principal; the central gem of a necklace
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/naːjaka/(machine-generated) Sinhala · model-generated · read from නායක
Nayaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- INIndia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 2.6Kas Nyack
- SGSingapore≈1 in 42Kfew recordsas Nayak
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 Nayaka 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #433 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
413,144 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nayak in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 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
(measured from records)leader. lord; principal; the central gem of a necklace.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nayaka 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 | #76 | 413,144 | 1 in 3.2K | 413K | Nayak | 292 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | listed | Nayak | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,930as Nayak | 1 in 172K | 3.3K | Nayak | 288 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Nayak | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Nayak | 17 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Nayak | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Nayak | 31 |
| GD Grenada | — | 43as Nyack | 1 in 2.6K | 43 | — | — |
413,144 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling nayaka. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)Nayaka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, minister: a politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of naik.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, romanization of ꦤꦪꦏ
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)- Wahyu Nayaka Arya Pankaryanirab. 1992IDbadminton player
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 413K | #60 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 218 | #13,273 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Nayaka mean, and where does it come from?
- leader. lord; principal; the central gem of a necklace. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Nayaka?
- In Sinhala /naːjaka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Nayaka have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 413 thousand people named Nayaka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayak.
- Where is Nayaka most common?
- Nayaka is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nayaka?
- In India, the national register counted 413,144 people named Nayaka, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Nayaka compared with other names?
- In India, Nayaka is the 76th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames 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/nayakaThe 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, “Nayaka” — the 76th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.