Yï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yï is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian ї (ji).
- CNChina≈1 in 210(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 800
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 406 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 209 (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, 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 Yi in US United States, MY Malaysia, AU Australia 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
(measured from records)From Ukrainian ї (ji).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yï 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 | — | ≈6,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | — | Yi | 89 |
| MY Malaysia | #145 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 797 | — | Yi | 89 |
| US United States | — | 11,132 | 1 in 30K | 19K | Yi | 406 |
| HK Hong Kong | #235 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Yi | 71 |
| AU Australia | #530 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Yi | 170 |
| SG Singapore | #236 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Yi | 122 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yï mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian ї (ji). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Yï a male or female name?
- Yï is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Yï?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 million people named Yï in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yi. After it come Malaysia, United States, Hong Kong and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,132 people named Yï in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Yï compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Yï is the 145th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%AFThe 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, “Yï” — the 145th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.