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All around the world, ยาว (Yao , ยาว , Longthon ) is a common gender-neutral given name. The forename ยาว is habitual in Macao, where it is quite a common unisex name, Togo, where it is quite a common masculine name, and Ivory Coast, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in China, Ivory Coast, and Ghana. More frequently, ยาว is the last name as well as the forename.
ยาว is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Yao Fei , the fictional character from the television series Arrow; Yao , the character from Disney's Mulan and Yao Fei , the DC Comics character, 52.