Naya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Niya in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom, นยา in TH Thailand and Nayá in BR Brazil.

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●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Naya is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name17K records spelled Naya10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Nãyã, Ñăyä, Nayá, Náya, Ňẵyậ

• Indonesian given name6.7K records spelled Naya6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia

  Also written 'Naya, Naya', Ñaya, Ñäyä

55 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●

Naya is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Naya (m.fl. former) kan vara ett indiskt namn med betydelsen ’förnyelse’. Det kan också vara en skrivform av Nia, ett namn med rötter i såväl swahili som walesiska där det betyder ’syfte’ respektive ’klar’. Nia och Naya är båda relativt populära som namn i USA idag. Även ett arabiskt namn, ofta skrivet Najah, finns, med betydelsen ’framgång’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• name of many men (P); Balarama (N); Kala (N);

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• In dag, to sit down heavily or loosely (always with reference to a large person); used with ‘zini’. ? semantically-auxiliary verb

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In Danish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Naja

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

• In Somali, An exclamation to get attention from a girl.

  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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1921–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Carlo Nayab. 1816ITItalian photographer (1816-1882)
• Tomoichi Nayab. 1909JPJapanese teacher
• Xoán Acuña Nayab. 1923ESSpanish footballer (1923-2001)
• Gorō Nayab. 1929JPJapanese voice actor (1929–2013)
• Rokurō Nayab. 1932JPJapanese actor and narrator (1932–2014)
• Hiromi Nayab. 1939JPJapanese lawyer
• Taihō Kōkib. 1940JPnot in their usual nameJapanese sumo wrestler and the 48th Yokozuna (1940-2013)
• Naya Riverab. 1987USAmerican actress and singer (1987–2020)
• Naya Tapperb. 1994USAmerican rugby union player (1994-)
• Naya Desir-Johnsonactress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 646 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Naya?

We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Naya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Naya have the most bearers?

Naya is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled นยา.

How common is Naya compared with other names?

In Thailand, Naya is the 446th most common surname of 1,043,186 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Naya mean?

Recorded meaning: wisdom; doctrine. conduct; behaviour; good; management; prudence; maxim.