Forename Yap

All over the world, Yap (Yap , หยับ , ياب ) is a common gender-neutral given name. The first name Yap is habitual in South-eastern Asia, particularly Singapore, where it is quite a common unisex name, Malaysia, and Brunei, where it is quite a rare unisex name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. Likewise, Yap is the last name as well as the forename.

Jesus fish Yap is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Yap

name Iaab, name ยัป, name หยาบ, name ยะป้อ, name Ыап, name Yeh, name 叶, name Jape, name 叶氏, name ယပ္, name ยัพ, name 葉, name ยับ, name Е, name يي, name Yip, name Yapma, name Яп, name เห่า, name หยับ, name Иап, name Є, name Ye, name Ip, name イェ, name Yap, name ياب, name יאפ, name Diệp, name ယပ်

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Yap	Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore
หยับ, ยัป	Thailand
ياب	Iraq, Egypt, Sudan

First names said to be same

Diệp, Iaab, Ip, Jape, Yapma, Ye, Yeh, Yip, Е, Иап, Ыап, Яп, Є, יאפ, يي, ยะป้อ, ยับ, ยัพ, หยาบ, เห่า, ယပ္, ယပ်, イェ, 叶, 叶氏, and 葉

First name Yap in the context

Yap is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Jaap Kooiman , character in Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon.

Notable namesakes

	miranda yap Singaporean academic, SG (b. 1948)
	johnson yap actor (b. 1950)
	andronico yap Filipino chess player, PH (b. 1961)
	celestial t yap researcher
	lee chien yap researcher
	fui yap researcher
	zeng z yap researcher (ORCID 0000-0001-5827-933X)
	yee ling yap researcher
	pei lay yap researcher
	yun ting yap researcher
	wei aun yap researcher
	keong yap researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7008-4903
	min hui yap researcher
	wei hsum yap researcher
	yee chinn yap researcher