Ÿâw
given name · Latin script
Ÿâw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century.
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.8K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 51Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yaw in GH Ghana, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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)- Old Norsejaga“to chase“to chase, drive, move back and forth”(measured from records)
- Middle Low Germanjagen“to hunt“to hunt, chase, pursue”(measured from records)
- Old Saxon*jagōn(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*jagōn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jakkōną“to hunt”(measured from records)
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ÿâw 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #12 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 96K | Yaw | 107 |
| MY Malaysia | #686 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Yaw | 60 |
| US United States | — | 1,320 | 1 in 252K | 1.5K | Yaw | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 95 | Yaw | 126 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Yaw | 23 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Yaw | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Yaw | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | — | 10 |
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: Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ÿâw mean, and where does it come from?
- Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ÿâw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Ÿâw in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaw.
- How common is the name Ÿâw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,320 people named Ÿâw in 2020, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
- How common is Ÿâw compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Ÿâw is the 12th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BF%C3%A2wThe 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, “Ÿâw” — the 12th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.