Oyai
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Oyai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 19Kas Wai(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 39Kas Wai
- USUnited States1 in 60Kas Wai
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 Oyai 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
5,502 named Wai, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, as Wai
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wai in US United States, BD Bangladesh.
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)
Oyai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,502as Wai | 1 in 60K | 2.8K | Wai | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 889as Wai | 1 in 19K | 571 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 260as Wai | 1 in 39K | 260 | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Wai | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 63as Wai | 1 in 93K | 38 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 56as Wai | 1 in 99K | 179 | — | — |
5,502 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Oyai a male or female name?
- Oyai is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Oyai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Wai, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oyai most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Oyai itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people named Wai.
- How common is the name Oyai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,502 people named Wai in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Oyai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oyaiThe 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, “Oyai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.