Yáh
surname · Latin script
Yáh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 595K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yah in US United States, PH Philippines, GT Guatemala and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yáh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1.8K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Yah | 10 |
| US United States | 199 | 1 in 1.7M | 279 | Yah | 41 |
| PH Philippines | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 595K | — | Yah | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Yah | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 651K | — | Yah | 3 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Yáh 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 puw, tall, high, upper, easterly
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yáh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Yáh in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yáh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 199 people named Yáh in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Yáh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%A1hThe 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, “Yáh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.