Khaya
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khaya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Kuwait it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A native house or hut.
- KWKuwait1 in 584◐
- QAQatar1 in 1.1K
- THThailand1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 156 ●
- 1 in 24K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
157K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Haya in US United States, SY Syria, EG Egypt and 18 more, Хая in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Chanya in SE Sweden, NO Norway and จรรยา in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A native house or hut.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #146 | 120,511 | 62K rec. | — | #89,237 | จรรยา | 116 |
| IN India | — | 60,954 | 48K rec. | — | 129 | Chaya | 96 |
| US United States | — | 11,252 | 12K rec. | 1 in 30K | 11K | Haya | 156 |
| SY Syria | #405 | 9,437 | 9.8K rec. | — | — | Haya | 26 |
| EG Egypt | #582 | 8,344 | 688 rec. | — | — | Haya | 56 |
| KW Kuwait | #58 | 3,913 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Haya | 59 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #366 | 3,145 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Haya | 107 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,218 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Haya | 19 |
| QA Qatar | #90 | 2,115 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Haya | 65 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,783 | 678 rec. | — | #1,405 | Хая | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,002 | 484 rec. | — | — | Haya | 36 |
| IL Israel | — | 993 | 905 rec. | — | — | Haya | 38 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3.6K44%
- Swahili1.2K15%
- Hindi7439%
- Russian5717%
- Indonesian2473%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,624 | 44% |
| Swahili | 1,239 | 15% |
| Hindi | 743 | 9% |
| Russian | 571 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 247 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Khaya 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.
Home.
as a nameThe African book of names
In pi, decline, decadence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mahagonu dzimtas ģints
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 21 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 291 | #27,750 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #46,112 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37 | #27,750 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #38,408 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #48,022 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #47,055 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Khaya?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Khaya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Khaya have the most bearers?
- Khaya is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จรรยา.
- How common is Khaya compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Khaya is the 146th most common given name of 422,526 given names recorded there.
- Is Khaya a male or female name?
- Khaya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Khaya mean?
- Recorded meaning: A native house or hut.
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About this data
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, “Khaya” — the 146th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.