Nayo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nayo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: We have joy.
- TGTogo≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 204K
- COColombia≈1 in 322K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
We have joy
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nayo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Nayo | 8 |
| TG Togo | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 87 | Nayo | 54 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | — | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 965K | — | Nayo | 10 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Nayo | 4 |
| PE Peru | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 427K | — | Nayo | 18 |
| CL Chile | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 412K | 1 | Nayo | 13 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Nayo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Good advice
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In pi, nominative singular masculine of naya (“leading”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-mi class|mi class_((IV))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Ji-ma class|ma class_((VI))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((IX))]] inflected form of na; with it, with them, and it, and them
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, four
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)
- Nayo Wallaceb. 1970USactress
- Nayo Raincock-Ekunweb. 1991CACanadian basketball player (born 1991)
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Nayo mean, and where does it come from?
- We have joy Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Nayo a male or female name?
- Nayo 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.
- In which country does Nayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 152 people named Nayo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayo.
- How common is the name Nayo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Nayo in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nayo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nayoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nayo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.