Taya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- RURussia≈1 in 85Kas Тая
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 Taya 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
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
5,587 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Тая in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Taja in SI Slovenia.
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)
weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taya 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 | — | 5,587 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Taya | 275 |
| SI Slovenia | #272 | 2,106as Taja | 1 in 998 | 2.1K | Taja | 37 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 85K | #903 | Тая | 113 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Taya | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 6 | Taya | 118 |
| BY Belarus | #781 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Тая | 10 |
5,587 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Taya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In umb, write. *7>, conj., till ; unto; as far as. 7M#, v. a., jump across
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In lua, to crack, burst, shell or hull out, hatch (as fowl).
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In xod, alternative form of tai (“water”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, rust (result of oxidation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gur, catapult (slingshot)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taya Efremoffb. 1904BRchess player
- Taya Kyleb. 1974USAmerican author, veteran family activist and advocate
- Taya Parkerb. 1980USAmerican pornographic actress and model
- Taya Rogersb. 1985THThai actress
- Taya Shawkib. 1993SESwedish dancer
- Taya Reimerb. 1995USAmerican basketball player
- Taya Calicettob. 1998CACanadian actress
- Taya Calder-MasonAUAustralian actress
- Taya Dawn Ayotte Bournsfilm director
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Taya?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑjə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Taya mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Taya a male or female name?
- Taya is a female 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 Taya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Taya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taya.
- How common is the name Taya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,587 people named Taya in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Taya compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Taya is the 272nd most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taya?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayaThe 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, “Taya” — the 272nd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.