J-Y

Name: J-Y: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

J-Y is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.

rarermore common

CACanada≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 1.5M
FRFrance≈1 in 2.2M

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.

: Canada (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 103 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled J'Y in FR France.

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)

J-Y 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 J-Y is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
CA Canada	≈320 est.	≈1 in 120K	—	J-Y	5
US United States	228	1 in 1.5M	163	—	8
FR France	≈31 est.	≈1 in 2.2M	—	J'Y	103
AU Australia	—	—	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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)

J-Y is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English given name8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Also written Jy, Jÿ, Jý
Korean given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in South Korea
Also written 장육, Jy, Jŷ
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Jy
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Jy
Spanish name6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United Kingdom
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Jy, J'Y, Jÿ
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written J-Ÿ

10 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 J-Y 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

Is J-Y a male or female name?: J-Y 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 J-Y have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 315 people named J-Y in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled j-y.
How common is the name J-Y?: In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named J-Y in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

What do you want to know about J-Y?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j-y

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “J-Y”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)