Yawo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəˌw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yawo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- TGTogo≈1 in 527(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 237K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 258K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 527 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yawo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #21 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 527 | 19 | Yawo | 28 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 307K | — | Yawo | 14 |
| US United States | — | 151 | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Yawo | 85 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Yawo | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Yawo | 67 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 258K | 2 | Yawo | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Yawo 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 mch, first-person possessed form of wo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Krio, bride
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xsb, dart
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 7 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #45,183 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 19 | #8 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yawo?
- A machine transcription gives /jəˌw/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Yawo a male or female name?
- Yawo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Yawo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Yawo in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yawo.
- How common is the name Yawo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 151 people named Yawo in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Yawo compared with other names?
- In Togo, Yawo is the 21st most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yawo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yawoThe 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, “Yawo” — the 21st most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.