Zaya

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.

• Spanish:/saʝa/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zaya, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Xena
• Zuri
• Zena
• Zella
• Zelda

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Zaya is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, India

  Languages: English, Dutch

  Also written Zãyá

• Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Paraguay

  Also written Záya

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa

  Also written Zàyà, Zayà

• Arabic surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Iraq, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

  Also written Zãyá, Zåÿá, Zàyà, Zâya, Zâÿä

• Burmese surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Singapore, United States

  Also written Żayà, Žaŷá, Zàÿà, Zãÿä, Žaya

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Zaya is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In dag, one: an item: used in compound with number one or adjectives: zay’yini ‘one of them’ (cf di bayi ‘two of them’), and entries below with zay’ + adjective zaya vielli, a good one; zaya viela, good ones

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In dag, concern, interest, attention: N zaya ka a yeltoya maa ni. I have no concern in your matter.(also ziya)

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In ckv, west; toward the mountains

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In pwn, upland; upriver

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In crh, loss

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ckv, west

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Octavio Zayab. 1954ESSpanish art curator

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).

50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Zaya?

In Spanish /saʝa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Zaya mean, and where does it come from?

Perhaps from Russian Зая (Zaja). Recorded by Wiktionary.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Zaya?

In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Zaya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaya. After it come Croatia, United States, Spain and Paraguay; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Zaya most common?

Zaya is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Zaya?

In Argentina, the national register counted 1,287 people named Zaya, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.