Yagó
given name · Latin script
Yagó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical accoun.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 5.1K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 31K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
59,149 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yago in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 4 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(measured from records)
- LatinIācōbus“James”(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸάκωβοςIákōbos(measured from records)
- Hebrewיַעֲקֹבya‘ăqṓḇ“Jacob”(measured from records)
- Hebrew rootעָקֵב‘āqḗḇ“heel”(measured from records)
Inherited from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Diego, Jacobo, Santiago, and San Diego.
Sources 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yagó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #658 | 59,149 | 1 in 3.6K | 59K | Yago | 145 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,801 | 1 in 5.1K | 9.8K | Yago | 136 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 34 | Yago | 63 |
| US United States | — | 294 | 1 in 1.1M | 444 | Yago | 117 |
| FR France | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 377K | 10 | Yago | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 143 | 1 in 24K | 143 | Yago | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Yago | 6 |
59,149 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Yagó Bellónb. 1989CHSwiss association football player
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 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Yagó mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical accoun… Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Yagó a male or female name?
- Yagó 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 Yagó have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 59 thousand people named Yagó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yago.
- Where is Yagó most common?
- Yagó is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yagó?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 59,149 people named Yagó in 2022, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Yagó compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Yagó is the 658th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yag%C3%B3The 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, “Yagó” — the 658th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.