Wijaya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: victory
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wid͡ʒaja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wijaya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 523(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 8.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 523 (inferred from the name graph)
≈510,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
victory
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wijaya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #20 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | listed | Wijaya | 278 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Wijaya | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | #709 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Wijaya | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Wijaya | 102 |
| SG Singapore | #349 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Wijaya | 60 |
| US United States | — | 448 | 1 in 742K | 580 | Wijaya | 173 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Wijaya | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Wijaya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kaw, victory, triumph
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mieke Wijayab. 1940IDIndonesian actress
- Putu Wijayab. 1944IDIndonesian writer
- Indra Wijayab. 1974IDIndonesian and Singaporean badminton player
- Candra Wijayab. 1975IDbadminton player
- Rendra Wijayab. 1984IDbadminton player
- Hendra Wijayab. 1985IDbadminton player
- Chelsea Oliviab. 1992IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian actress and singer
- Frengky Wijaya Putrab. 1997IDbadminton player
- Christopher David Wijayab. 2002IDIndonesian badminton player
- Maureen Wijayab. 2007AUbadminton player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 580 | #40,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 448 | #47,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Wijaya mean, and where does it come from?
- victory Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wijaya?
- A machine transcription gives /wid͡ʒaja/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Wijaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 510 thousand people named Wijaya in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wijaya.
- How common is the name Wijaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Wijaya in 2010, about 1 in 742 thousand residents.
- How common is Wijaya compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Wijaya is the 20th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wijayaThe 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, “Wijaya” — the 20th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.