Ÿą

surname · Latin script

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

Ÿą is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Reduced form of you. Compare Dutch je, reduced/unstressed form of jij (“you”).

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 83K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 85K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,770 people, 2020

Sources
41 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ya in DZ Algeria, US United States, MA Morocco and 1 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)

Reduced form of you. Compare Dutch je, reduced/unstressed form of jij (“you”).

Sources 6

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ÿą 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 Ÿą is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,7701 in 188K1.3KYa41
DZ Algeria#244≈1,100 est.≈1 in 40K—Ya13
MA Morocco—≈180 est.≈1 in 198K—Ya26
TN Tunisia#623≈140 est.≈1 in 85K—Ya13
SE Sweden—1231 in 83K123—1
NL Netherlands—1061 in 163K99—5

1,770 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

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

  • English given name95 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Nigeria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ya, Yae, Yà, Yã, Ya'

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ÿą under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ÿą mean, and where does it come from?
Reduced form of you. Compare Dutch je, reduced/unstressed form of jij (“you”). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
In which country does Ÿą have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Ÿą, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ya.
How common is the name Ÿą?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,770 people named Ÿą in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
How common is Ÿą compared with other names?
In Algeria, Ÿą is the 244th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ÿą” — the 244th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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