Anaya

surname · Spanish · Latin script

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

Anaya is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Visnu (N).

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 1.7K◐
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 1.8K
  • COColombia1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈32K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
302 ●

341K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.8K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Añaya in BO Bolivia.

Meaning & origin●

Visnu (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#221214,431179K rec.—1.3KAnaya179
PE Peru#52152,80949K rec.——Anaya66
CO Colombia#33525,96711K rec.—10Anaya121
US United States—24,01745K rec.1 in 14K24KAnaya302
SV El Salvador#20822,53219K rec.——Anaya41
VE Venezuela#9157,7157.4K rec.——Anaya31
ES Spain—5,6778.2K rec.1 in 8.8K5.7KAnaya117
BR Brazil—3,0282.4K rec.—162Anaya50
AR Argentina—1,72711K rec.1 in 26K1.7KAnaya67
PH Philippines—1,4791.2K rec.——Anaya26
CA Canada—1,3721.4K rec.—32Anaya45
ID Indonesia—295126 rec.——Anaya48

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish416K73%
  • English94K16%
  • Swahili16K3%
  • 10K2%
  • Catalan5.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish415,69073%
English93,88416%
Swahili15,9403%
9,9872%
Catalan5,6771%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anaya is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname117K records spelled Anaya16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Peru, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written A'Naya, Ana'Ya, Añaya, Ąņäýā, Anãÿã

  • Catalan surname16K records spelled Anaya4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Peru

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Ânaya, Anayä

  • a separate surname12K records spelled Anaya3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Peru

    Also written Añaya, Ânaya

  • Hindi surname3.2K records spelled Anaya5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Peru, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ånayä, Anayã

  • French given name1.7K records spelled Anaya45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Laos

    Languages: French, English, Dutch

    Also written Inaya, อุนายา, Unaya, อนาญา, Inâya

  • Swedish surname1.4K records spelled Anaya6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Añaya

66 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.

Other recorded senses●

Anaya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, dative singular of ana

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pi, misfortune, distress

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In osp, brother

    as a wordkaikki.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.

Over time●

02505007501K19801990200020102020

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Anaya in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1978–2025
Yearrecords
19785
19798
19806
19817
19839
19855
19889
19896
19905
199114
199216
199320
199431
199520
199661
199784
1998104
1999187
2000243
2001328
2002379
2003519
2004567
2005635
2006642
2007694
2008728
2009657
2010625
2011622
2012648
2013641
2014741
2015789
2016837
2017768
2018736
2019779
2020809
2021758
2022770
2023789
2024785
2025911

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Carlos Anaya, b. 1777Ignacio Anaya García, b. 1897Mélida Anaya Montes, b. 1929Rudolfo Anaya, b. 1937Toney Anaya, b. 1941Regina Torné, b. 1945James Anaya, b. 1960Elena Anaya, b. 1975María José, b. 1976Ricardo Anaya, b. 1979

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●

Attested in 83 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Anaya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201024K#1,488
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202024K#1,474
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200017K#1,894
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,235
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.7K#950
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.7K#950
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242K#225
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.7K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—1.3K#278
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025911—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—546#2,370
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—353#5,843

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 451 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anaya?
We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Anaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Anaya have the most bearers?
Anaya is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled anaya.
How common is Anaya compared with other names?
In Mexico, Anaya is the 221st most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Anaya mean?
Recorded meaning: Visnu (N)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Anaya” — the 221st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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