Papaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pəpaɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Papaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 153K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 413K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Papaya is read(measured from records)
Papaya is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Papaya in French.
- Spanish16%
papaya (fruit)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Papaya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Papaya | 19 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 413K | 30 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Papaya | 3 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | — | Papaya | 49 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Papaya | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 827K | — | Papaya | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 872K | — | Papaya | 3 |
| IN India | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | Papaya | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Papaya 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 German, papaya, Carica papaya (fruit)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, accusative singular of papa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, papaya (fruit and tree)
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #176,685 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
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 Papaya mean, and where does it come from?
- A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Papaya?
- A machine transcription gives /pəpaɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Papaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 713 people named Papaya in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papaya.
- How common is the name Papaya?
- In India, the national register counted 5 people named Papaya, about 1 in 265 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papayaThe 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, “Papaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.