Ýoñ
surname · Latin script
Ýoñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 23Kfew records
- VEVenezuela1 in 48K
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 Ýoñ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
62,323 named Yan, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yon in US United States, MY Malaysia, KP North Korea and 연 in KR South Korea.
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
(measured from records)- Middle Englishyon(measured from records)
- Old Englishġeon(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jainaz(measured from records)
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ýoñ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 62,323as Yan | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 16,856as Yan | 1 in 20K | 17K | Yon | 273 |
| KR South Korea | #1000 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 37K | 연 | 205 |
| KP North Korea | #290 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1 | Yon | 21 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,630as Yan | 1 in 15K | 2.5K | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Yon | 35 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 601 | 1 in 48K | 601 | — | — |
62,323 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ýoñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ýoñ have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Yan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ýoñ?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 601 people named Ýoñ, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Ýoñ compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Ýoñ is the 290th most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BDo%C3%B1The 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, “Ýoñ” — the 290th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.