Wayu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/weɪu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wayu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.9Kas Wise(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 3.8Kas Wise
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.3Kas Wise
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 Wayu 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370,000 named Wise, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est., as Wise
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wise in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CN China and 4 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wayu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Wise | 14 |
| US United States | #455 | 68,649as Wise | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Wise | 521 |
| GB United Kingdom | #539 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 9.3K | Wise | 223 |
| GH Ghana | #209 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Wise | 33 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Wise | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | #415 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Wise | 70 |
| IS Iceland | #932 | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Wise | 5 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Wayu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Javanese, old, stale, having sat around too long
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pmf, eight
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wayu?
- A machine transcription gives /weɪu/ (IPA) for Thai.
- Is Wayu a male or female name?
- Wayu 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 Wayu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 369 thousand people named Wise in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wayu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,649 people named Wise in 2010, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Wayu compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Wayu is the 209th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wayu?
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/wayuThe 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, “Wayu” — the 209th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.