Yavé

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Yahweh

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

Yavé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 422K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.6M
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.9M

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈76 people, est.

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 422K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yave in PE Peru, US United States, ES Spain 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)

Yahweh

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yavé 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 Yavé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈76 est.≈1 in 422K—Yave18
ES Spain311 in 1.6M32Yave21
US United States≈28 est.≈1 in 12MlistedYave36
CO Colombia≈13 est.≈1 in 3.8M—Yave10
VE Venezuela≈11 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Yave5
DO Dominican Republic≈5 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Yave4
SV El Salvador≈2 est.≈1 in 3.4M—Yave4

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Yavé is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, United States

    Also written Yave, Ÿâve

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Nigeria

    Also written Yave, Ýăvë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yave

1 further group 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 Yavé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yavé mean, and where does it come from?
Yahweh Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Yavé a male or female name?
Yavé 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 Yavé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 76 people named Yavé in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yave.
How common is the name Yavé?
In Spain, the national register counted 31 people named Yavé, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Yavé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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