Uttiya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Son of a brahmin of Sāvatthi; became an arahant after brief instruction by the Buddha, and is identified with the Thera of the Saṃyutta Nikāya (Thag.v.30; ThagA.i.89f.; S.v.22; Ibid.,166)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Uttiya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 54Kas อุทธิยา(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Uttiya 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 named อุทธิยา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as อุทธิยา
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled อุทธิยา in TH Thailand and Utthiya in US United States.
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)
Son of a brahmin of Sāvatthi; became an arahant after brief instruction by the Buddha, and is identified with the Thera of the Saṃyutta Nikāya (Thag.v.30; ThagA.i.89f.; S.v.22; Ibid.,166).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uttiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | #816,127 | อุทธิยา | 61 |
| IN India | — | — | listed | Uttiya | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Utthiya | 2 |
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: the in-kaggle-names-gender register. 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)
Uttiya 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 pi, King of Ceylon, son of Muṭasīva and successor of Devānaṃpiyatissa; reigned ten years and commemorated Mahinda and Saṅghamittā (Dpv.xii.75; Mhv.xx.57,49; p.253).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, A thera who accompanied Mahinda on the mission to Ceylon; honored by Sirimeghavaṇṇa (Mhv.xii.8; Dpv.xii.12; Sp.i.70; Mbv.116; Cv.xxxvii.87).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, A householder who attained arahantship while living as a layman, mentioned with Yasa-Kulaputta and Setu-mānava (source cited in text).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, One of the seven warriors of King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī; builder of the Dakkhīṇa-vihāra south of Anurādhapura (Mhv.xxxiii.88).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, An individual named Uttiya mentioned in the Kathāvattha (I.268).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Uttiya mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of a brahmin of Sāvatthi; became an arahant after brief instruction by the Buddha, and is identified with the Thera of the Saṃyutta Nikāya (Thag.v.30; ThagA.i.89f.; S.v.22; Ibid.,166). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- Is Uttiya a male or female name?
- Uttiya 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.
- In which country does Uttiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named อุทธิยา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Uttiya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,300 people in Thailand have อุทธิยา as their first surname, about 1 in 54 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uttiyaThe 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, “Uttiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.