Yogi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: cartoon bear; pers. name (Y
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yogi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 690K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.3K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 68K
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 Yogi 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yaga in NG Nigeria.
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)
cartoon bear; pers. name (Y. Berra)
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yogi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Yogi | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Yaga | 4 |
| US United States | 482 | 1 in 690K | 842 | Yogi | 190 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Yogi | 14 |
| JP Japan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Yogi | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Yogi | 19 |
| SG Singapore | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Yogi | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Yogi | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the id-github-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Yogi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A devotee or adherent of yoga.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of よぎ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, yogi (yoga practitioner)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Svātmārāmab. 1400INnot in their usual nameIndian yogic sage
- Yogi Chenb. 1906Chinese hermit
- Yogi Bhajanb. 1929PKIndian-American Sikh Yogi (1929-2004)
- Yogi Huyghebaertb. 1944CACanadian politician (1944-2018)
- Yogi Harib. 1945BRMaster of Sampoorna Yoga
- Yogi Adityanathb. 1972IN21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Yogi Matsyendranathb. 1976RUyogi
- Yogi Babub. 1985INIndian actor
- Yogi Ferrellb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Yogi Trianab. 1994IDIndonesian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 417 | #21,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65 | #21,175 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Yogi come from?
- cartoon bear; pers. name (Y. Berra) Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What does the name Yogi mean?
- Recorded meaning: cartoon bear; pers. name (Y.
- Is Yogi a male or female name?
- Yogi 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.
- What are other forms of the name Yogi?
- In the etymology graph, Yogini and Yogin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yogi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 thousand people named Yogi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yogi.
- How common is the name Yogi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 482 people named Yogi in 2020, about 1 in 690 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yogiThe 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, “Yogi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.