Preya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Preya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 7.2Kas ปรียา(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 30Kas Priya
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 522K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Preya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 522K (inferred from the name graph)
11,068 named Priya, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
16 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ปรียา in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia and Priya in NL Netherlands.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Preya 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,068as Priya | 1 in 30K | 11K | Preya | 104 |
| TH Thailand | #477 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | #355,137 | ปรียา | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | ปรียา | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 442as Priya | 1 in 39K | 442 | Priya | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 301as Priya | 1 in 34K | 301 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | #929 | 282as Priya | 1 in 2.7K | 282 | Preya | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Preya | 10 |
11,068 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling priya. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 212 | #36,519 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 114 | #480 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #36,519 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Preya?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹijə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Preya a male or female name?
- Preya 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.
- In which country does Preya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Priya, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Preya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,068 people named Priya in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Preya compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Preya is the 477th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Preya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/preyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Preya” — the 477th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.