Takaya

given name · Latin script

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

/tækaɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Takaya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 5.1M
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

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.

United States (measured from records)

178 people, 2020

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Takaya 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 Takaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1781 in 1.9M129—6
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
SE Sweden21 in 5.1M2——
FR France———Takaya14
BR Brazil——61——

178 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

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

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, United States

    Also written Tâkãyā, Tàkàyà, Tâkãyâ

37 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Takaya Hashi, b. 1952Takaya Kamikawa, b. 1965Takaya Kuroda, b. 1965Takaya Yamauchi, b. 1971Takaya Oishi, b. 1972Takaya Kagami, b. 1979Takaya Kurokawa, b. 1981Takaya Aoyagi, b. 1985Takaya Kawanabe, b. 1988Takaya Osanai, b. 1993

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalこんにちは、TakayaさんHi Takaya, (English)

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 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Takaya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020129#41,276
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049#41,276
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200212—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200411—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20057—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20007—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19957—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20086—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20066—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20036—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19966—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20095—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

How do you pronounce Takaya?
A machine transcription gives /tækaɪə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
Is Takaya a male or female name?
Takaya is a male 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 Takaya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 178 people named Takaya, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Takaya most common?
Takaya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Takaya?
In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Takaya in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takaya

The 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, “Takaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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