Nayi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nayi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 592K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 918K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 592K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, 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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nayi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Nayi | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 918K | — | Nayi | 6 |
| US United States | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | listed | Nayi | 50 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 64 | Nayi | 26 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Nayi | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Nayi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ff, four
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wny, this
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 64 | #43,667 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #64,355 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nayi?
- A machine transcription gives /nəji/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Nayi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 208 people named Nayi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayi.
- How common is the name Nayi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30 people named Nayi, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nayi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nayiThe 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, “Nayi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.