Yế
given name · Latin script
Yế is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant.
- USUnited States1 in 99K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 7.3Kas Nghiep
- ISIceland1 in 88K
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 Yế 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Nghiep, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ye in ES Spain, CN China, Nghiệp in VN Vietnam and Nghiep 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)
- Middle Englishye(measured from records)
- Old Englishġē“ye”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*jiʀ(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jīz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*yūs“ye”(measured from records)
From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs, *yū́ (“ye”), plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), Danish and Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”). See also you.
Sources 5
- A Handbook of African Names
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yế 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #332 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Nghiệp | 79 |
| US United States | — | 3,370 | 1 in 99K | 16K | Nghiep | 62 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Ye | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 151 | 1 in 1.4M | 151 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 135 | 1 in 370K | 9.3K | Ye | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 37 | 1 in 159K | 151 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 20 | 1 in 279K | 259 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yế mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant… Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and A concise dictionary of first names and 3 other sources.
- Is Yế a male or female name?
- Yế is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yế have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Nghiep in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yế most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yế is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though Vietnam holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yế?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,370 people named Yế in 2020, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Yế compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Yế is the 332nd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%E1%BA%BFThe 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, “Yế” — the 332nd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.