Al-Yahya

surname · Latin script

Al-Yahya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.

  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 486K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.2M

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.

Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,700 people, est.

Record sources
100 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Saudi Arabia, 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 Alyahya in SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait, SY Syria 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

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)

Al-Yahya 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.

Where Al-Yahya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SA Saudi Arabia#435≈7,700 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Alyahya100
IQ Iraq—≈350 est.≈1 in 112K—Alyahya4
MY Malaysia—≈310 est.≈1 in 107K—Al-Yahya13
SY Syria—≈300 est.≈1 in 64K—Alyahya9
ID Indonesia—≈180 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Alyahya16
KW Kuwait#833≈160 est.≈1 in 18K—Alyahya33
BH Bahrain#921≈52 est.≈1 in 29K—Alyahya10
SE Sweden—211 in 486K21—3

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Al-Yahya is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Alyahya

  • Russian name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Alyahya

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq

    Also written Alyahya

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States

    Also written Alyahya

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Alyahya, Al-Yaḥyá

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Alyahya

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Alyahya

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Al-Yahya under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Al-Yahya have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Al-Yahya in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alyahya.
How common is the name Al-Yahya?
In Sweden, the national register counted 21 people named Al-Yahya, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
How common is Al-Yahya compared with other names?
In Saudi Arabia, Al-Yahya is the 435th most common surname of 121,290 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Al-Yahya” — the 435th most common surname in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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