Yan-Yi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yan-Yi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TWTaiwan≈1 in 70K
  • CNChina≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, 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 Yanyi in US United States, CN China, HK Hong Kong 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yan-Yi 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.

Where Yan-Yi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈16,000 est.≈1 in 88K—Yanyi45
TW Taiwan≈340 est.≈1 in 70K—Yan-Yi11
US United States3061 in 1.1M279Yanyi79
HK Hong Kong≈110 est.≈1 in 68K—Yanyi10
MY Malaysia≈100 est.≈1 in 316K—Yanyi6
SG Singapore≈20 est.≈1 in 316K—Yanyi10

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yan-Yi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, China

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Yanyi

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yanyi

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Yan-Yi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Yan-Yi a male or female name?
Yan-Yi is a female 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 Yan-Yi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Yan-Yi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanyi.
How common is the name Yan-Yi?
In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Yan-Yi in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

What do you want to know about Yan-Yi?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yan-yi

The 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, “Yan-Yi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Yan-Yi parses inside a full name →