Yohn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 170K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 73K
- IEIreland≈1 in 78K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Yohn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Yohn | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Yohn | 1 |
| US United States | 1,959 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Yohn | 228 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 181K | 11 | Yohn | 28 |
| BR Brazil | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 646K | 27 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Yohn | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Yohn | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frederick Coffay Yohnb. 1875USAmerican artist (1875-1933)
- Erica Yohnb. 1928USAmerican actress (1928-2019)
- William H. Yohn, Jr.b. 1935USJudge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Dave Yohnb. 1937USfootball player (born 1937)
- Katlyn Yohnb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Christopher B YohnUSresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #101,516 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Yohn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Yohn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Yohn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yohn.
- How common is the name Yohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,959 people named Yohn in 2010, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yohn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yohnThe 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, “Yohn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.