Yaru
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jəɹu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yaru is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 58K
- PAPanama≈1 in 420K
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
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, 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 Ya-Ru in TW Taiwan.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yaru 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 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Yaru | 50 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Ya-Ru | 25 |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Yaru | 77 |
| CO Colombia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Yaru | 9 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | Yaru | 5 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Yaru | 5 |
| PA Panama | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Yaru | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 972K | — | Yaru | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Yaru 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 Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of やる
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ggt, a tree: Casuarina sp.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tft, sailfish
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #42,255 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23 | #25,003 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yaru?
- A machine transcription gives /jəɹu/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Yaru a male or female name?
- Yaru 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 Yaru have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Yaru in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaru.
- How common is the name Yaru?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30 people named Yaru, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Yaru?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaruThe 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, “Yaru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.