יו
org · Hebrew script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
יו is a name written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 300K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Joe
- ECEcuador1 in 4.6Kas Joe
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 יו 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 305K (inferred from the name graph)
275,876 named Joe, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Joe 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
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)יו 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 275,876as Joe | 1 in 1.2K | 272K | Joe | 86 |
| EC Ecuador | 3,646as Joe | 1 in 4.6K | 3.6K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 1,571as Joe | 1 in 135K | 2.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 646as Joe | 1 in 16K | 687 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 405as Yu | 1 in 123K | 3.1K | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 287as Joe | 1 in 20K | 306 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 265as Joe | 1 in 21K | 701 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 305K | 5 | יו | 20 |
275,876 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; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hugh Hefnerb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
- Willie Nelsonb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican country musician (born 1933)
- Hugh Fraserb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor and theatre director
- Ritchie Blackmoreb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameBritish guitarist
- Hugh David Politzerb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist
- Hugh Laurieb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
- Hugh Grantb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Hugh Bonnevilleb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (born 1963)
- Marilyn Mansonb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1969)
- Hua MulanCNnot in their usual nameChinese legendary female warrior
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present) | — | 5 | — |
| IL Israel | data.gov.il — First names in the population register | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does יו have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 276 thousand people named Joe, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name יו?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275,876 people named Joe in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D7%99%D7%95The 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, “יו”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.