Sugaya
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suɡaɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sugaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 5.2M
- THThailand≈1 in 17Mas ซุกายะ
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 Sugaya 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
41 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sugaya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 17M | #176,914 | Sugaya | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 13 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
41 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
- Masako Sugayab. 1937JPJapanese voice actress
- Shin'ichi Sugayab. 1937JPJapanese politician
- Fuminori Sugayab. 1942JPJapanese archaeologist
- Minoru Sugayab. 1949JPJapanese sociologist(1949-)
- Daisuke Sugayab. 1971JPJapanese announcer
- Tetsuya Sugayab. 1993JPJapanese actor and tarento
- Saki Sugayab. 1994JPJapanese idol singer
- Yayoi SugayaJPJapanese voice actress
- Kayo SugayaJPJapanese table tennis player
- Norberto Nobuo SugayaBRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4966-6295
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 13 | #120,601 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Sugaya?
- A machine transcription gives /suɡaɪə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Sugaya have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 41 people named Sugaya, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sugaya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sugaya is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sugaya?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 41 people named Sugaya, about 1 in 5.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sugaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sugayaThe 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, “Sugaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.