Yaton
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yaton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 5th most common surname.
- NPNepal1 in 25as Yadav(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 192as Yadav
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 394as Yadav
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 Yaton 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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- #42 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25 (inferred from the name graph)
1,228,581 named Yadav, 2021
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, as Yadav
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yadav in IN India, NP Nepal, SA Saudi Arabia and 6 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)
Yaton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | #962 | 1,228,581as Yadav | 1 in 25 | 1.2M | Yadav | 82 |
| IN India | #7 | 1,165,340as Yadav | 1 in 1.1K | 1.2M | Yadav | 342 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Yadav | 27 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #22 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Yadav | 34 |
| CN China | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Yadav | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #10 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | — | Yadav | 77 |
| QA Qatar | #5 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 192 | — | Yadav | 29 |
| KW Kuwait | #35 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Yadav | 17 |
| BH Bahrain | #24 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 518 | — | Yadav | 16 |
1,228,581 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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
- In which country does Yaton have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Yadav, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yaton most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yaton itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Nepal's: the national register counts about 1 in 25 people named Yadav.
- How common is the name Yaton?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 1,228,581 people named Yadav in 2021, about 1 in 25 residents.
- How common is Yaton compared with other names?
- In Nepal, Yaton is the 962nd most common surname of 25,881 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yatonThe 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, “Yaton” — the 962nd most common surname in Nepal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.