Nayudu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Nayudu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 420as Naidoo(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.8Kas Naidu
- GYGuyana1 in 8.1Kas Naidu
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 Nayudu 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 271 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Naidoo, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Fiji, est., as Naidu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Naidu in IN India, MY Malaysia, KW Kuwait and 3 more and Naidoo in ZA South Africa.
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)Nayudu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #50 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | — | Naidoo | 74 |
| IN India | #584 | 27,276as Naidu | 1 in 49K | 27K | Naidu | 231 |
| MY Malaysia | #590 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Naidu | 77 |
| FJ Fiji | #5 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 271 | — | Naidu | 28 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Naidu | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | #139 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Naidu | 13 |
| GY Guyana | #988 | 93as Naidu | 1 in 8.1K | 93 | Naidu | 2 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sarojini Naidub. 1879INIndian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from1947 to 1949
- Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidub. 1887INIndian film director (1887-1941)
- Padmaja Naidub. 1900INIndian politician (1900–1975)
- Stephen Naidoob. 1937ZAnot in their usual nameCatholic bishop (1937–1989)
- Leela Naidub. 1940INIndian actress (1940–2009)
- Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidub. 1949INVice President of India from 2017 to 2022
- Shobha Naidub. 1956INIndian dancer
- Ajay Naidub. 1972USAmerican actor
- Meghna Naidub. 1978INIndian actress
- Keshav NaiduIndian film editor
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.4K | #701 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,140 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #2,861 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Nayudu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Naidoo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nayudu?
- In India, the national register counted 27,276 people named Naidu, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Nayudu compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Nayudu is the 50th most common surname of 285,788 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/nayuduThe 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, “Nayudu” — the 50th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.