Йя
given name · Cyrillic script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Йя is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάς (Iás).
- RURussia≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 36Kas Ія
- LVLatvia1 in 5.6Kas Ija
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 Йя itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ия in RU Russia, FI Finland, Ія in UA Ukraine and Iya in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάς (Iás).
Sources 1
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Йя 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Йя mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάς (Iás). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Йя a male or female name?
- Йя is a female 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 Йя have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Йя in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ия.
- How common is the name Йя?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 747 people named Ia, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Йя compared with other names?
- In Russia, Йя is the 535th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Йя?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B9%D1%8FThe 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, “Йя” — the 535th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.