Yayé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yayé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 194K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1.3K
- TGTogo≈1 in 6.6K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, 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 Yaye in FR France, SN Senegal, CM Cameroon and 1 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.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yayé 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #111 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 9 | Yaye | 36 |
| TG Togo | #651 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Yaye | 5 |
| NE Niger | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | 9 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Yaye | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Yaye | 122 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 1 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
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: DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Yayé a male or female name?
- Yayé is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yayé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Yayé in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaye.
- How common is the name Yayé?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4 people named Yayé, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Yayé compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Yayé is the 111th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yayé?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yay%C3%A9The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yayé” — the 111th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.