Yat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɑt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 803K
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
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yat 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.
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 2020. 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)
Yat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Yambeta.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kos, eastern part of a village
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In slu, stand in battle-order
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kls, remembrance, memory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Wolof, stick, cane
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)
- Li Yib. 716not in their usual nameson of the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
- Yang Yib. 1984CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player born 1984
- Wang Yib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Zhang Yib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese triathlete
- Wang Yib. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese figure skater
- Yang Yib. 1995CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player, born 1995
- Yi-Fu CaiCNnot in their usual namecosmologist
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 314 | #23,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 100 | #23,590 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Yat mean, and where does it come from?
- A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yat?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Yat a male or female name?
- Yat 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 Yat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Yat in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yat.
- How common is the name Yat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 414 people named Yat in 2020, about 1 in 803 thousand residents.
- How common is Yat compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yat is the 234th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yatThe 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, “Yat” — the 234th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.