Vayda
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vayda is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hungarian Vajda, from Hungarian vajda, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda.
- USUnited States
- INIndia
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- HungarianVajda(measured from records)
- Hungarianvajda(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*vojevoda(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hungarian Vajda, from Hungarian vajda, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Emil Vajdab. 1858HUnot in their usual nameHungarian composer, literary historian, philosopher doctor, high school teacher (1858-1916)
- Jerry Vaydab. 1934USAmerican basketball player (1934–1978)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 471 | #45,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 458 | #49,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 454 | #44,574 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #114,634 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #159,395 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #409,666 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Vayda mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hungarian Vajda, from Hungarian vajda, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vayda have the most bearers?
- Vayda is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaydaThe 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, “Vayda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.