Yamá
surname · Latin script
Yamá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 580Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 740Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 909K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 575K (inferred from the name graph)
267 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, 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 Yama in MX Mexico, CO Colombia, US United States and 3 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)Agni (V); Indra (V); name of many men (P);
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yamá 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 318 | Yama | 36 |
| IN India | 254 | 1 in 5.2M | 254 | Yama | 7 |
| CO Colombia | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 575K | — | Yama | 35 |
| MX Mexico | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 41 | Yama | 41 |
| ES Spain | 31 | 1 in 1.6M | 34 | Yama | 18 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 740K | 1 | Yama | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 19 | 1 in 909K | 20 | — | 2 |
267 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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
- In which country does Yamá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 267 people named Yamá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yama.
- How common is the name Yamá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Yamá in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yam%C3%A1The 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, “Yamá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.