Ğaya

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ğaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 42K
  • ARArgentina1 in 77K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

2,553 people

Sources
139 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gayá in ES Spain and Gaya 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ğaya 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.

Where Ğaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,5531 in 20K2.6KGayá43
AR Argentina5911 in 77K591—1
IN India4001 in 3.3M400—37
US United States1961 in 1.7M213Gaya139
UY Uruguay801 in 42K80——
SE Sweden241 in 425K24—4
GY Guyana81 in 94K8—2

2,553 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling gaya. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ğaya is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Bangla

    Also written Gaya, গয়া, গঁয়া, ଗୟା, Guya

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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

In which country does Ğaya have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Ğaya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gayá.
Where is Ğaya most common?
Ğaya is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ğaya?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,553 people named Ğaya, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.

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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, “Ğaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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