Påy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Påy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 854 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”).
- SGSingapore≈1 in 36Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 47K
- UYUruguay1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
854 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pay in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more.
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
(measured from records)- Middle Englishpayen(measured from records)
- Old Frenchpaiier“pay”(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinpācāre“to settle“to settle, satisfy”(measured from records)
- Latinpācāre“to pacify”(measured from records)
From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). In this sense, displaced native Old English ġield (“pay”) and ġieldan (“to pay”), whence Modern English yield.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Påy is found
(measured from records)Påy 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 | 854 | 1 in 390K | 891 | Pay | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 1.5K | Pay | 139 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Pay | 31 |
| AU Australia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Pay | 82 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 24 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Pay | 40 |
| NO Norway | 116 | 1 in 47K | 116 | — | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 67 | 1 in 51K | 67 | — | — |
854 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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
- What does the name Påy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin pācāre (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin pācāre (“to pacify”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Påy a male or female name?
- Påy 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Påy?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 854 people named Påy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pay. After it come United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Påy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 854 people named Påy in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A5yThe 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, “Påy” — ranked 26761st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.