Яп

given name · Cyrillic script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Яп is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 38M(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 72Kas Yap
  • NLNetherlands1 in 101Kas Yap

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 Яп 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.

United States (measured from records)

4,590 named Yap, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 38M (inferred from the name graph)

Russia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ЯпCyrillic(measured from records)
YapLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yap in US United States, RU Russia and Jaap in NL Netherlands.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Яп 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 Яп is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,590as Yap1 in 72K5.2KYap14
NL Netherlands171as Yap1 in 101K8.6KJaap11
SE Sweden80as Yap1 in 128K80——
ES Spain54as Yap1 in 926K54—1
IN India54as Jaap1 in 25M54—2
FI Finland53as Yap1 in 105K53——
NO Norway52as Yap1 in 105K52——
RU Russia≈4 est.≈1 in 38M—Yap12

4,590 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Яп 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 mns-cen, father, dad

    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)

1850190019502000Jacobus van Looy, b. 1855Jaap Eden, b. 1873Jaap Kunst, b. 1891Jaap Spaanderman, b. 1896Jaap van Praag, b. 1910Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, b. 1927Jaap ter Linden, b. 1947Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, b. 1948Jaap van Zweden, b. 1960Jaap Stam, b. 1972
  • Jacobus van Looyb. 1855NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter and writer (1855-1930)
  • Jaap Edenb. 1873NLnot in their usual nameDutch speed skater and racing cyclist (1873-1925)
  • Jaap Kunstb. 1891NLnot in their usual nameDutch ethnomusicologist (1891–1960)
  • Jaap Spaandermanb. 1896NLnot in their usual nameDutch conductor (1896-1985)
  • Jaap van Praagb. 1910NLnot in their usual nameDutch businessman and sports executive (1910-1987)
  • Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zantenb. 1927NLnot in their usual nameDutch pilot (1927-1977)
  • Jaap ter Lindenb. 1947NLnot in their usual nameDutch cellist, viol player and conductor
  • Jaap de Hoop Schefferb. 1948NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
  • Jaap van Zwedenb. 1960NLnot in their usual nameDutch conductor (born 1960)
  • Jaap Stamb. 1972NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager (born 1972)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Is Яп a male or female name?
Яп is a male 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 Яп have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Yap, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Яп?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,590 people named Yap in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.

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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, “Яп”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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