Yaňez
surname · Latin script
Yaňez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez. Yaňez is also written Яньес in Cyrillic and יאז in Hebrew.
- CLChile≈1 in 630(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 689
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 950
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 Yaňez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 630 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yaňez in other scripts: Cyrillic and Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yanez in US United States, VE Venezuela, EC Ecuador and 1 more and Yañez in CL Chile, MX Mexico, UY Uruguay.
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)Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Yaňez is found
(measured from records)Yaňez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #51 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 630 | 1 | Yañez | 98 |
| VE Venezuela | #165 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 951 | — | Yanez | 75 |
| US United States | — | 25,563 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Yanez | 352 |
| EC Ecuador | #102 | 24,531 | 1 in 689 | 25K | Yanez | 70 |
| MX Mexico | #414 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 948 | Yañez | 178 |
| HN Honduras | #201 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Yanez | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | #531 | 1,279 | 1 in 2.6K | 1.3K | Yañez | 28 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
- What does the name Yaňez mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Yaňez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Yaňez in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yañez. After it come Venezuela, United States, Ecuador and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yaňez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,563 people named Yaňez in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Yaňez compared with other names?
- In Chile, Yaňez is the 51st most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaňez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ya%C5%88ezThe 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, “Yaňez” — the 51st most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.