Yadava
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jədəvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yadava is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 612as Yaadav(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 513K
- NPNepal1 in 25as Yadav
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yadava itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 513K (inferred from the name graph)
2,165,137 named Yaadav
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Yadava 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,165,137as Yaadav | 1 in 612 | 2.2M | Yadava | 96 |
| NP Nepal | 1,228,581as Yadav | 1 in 25 | 1.2M | — | 2 |
| US United States | 1,853as Yadav | 1 in 180K | 4.9K | Yadava | 88 |
| PL Poland | 428as Yadav | 1 in 89K | 348 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 250as Yadav | 1 in 41K | 250 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 215as Yadav | 1 in 26K | 215 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Yadava | 5 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3as Yadav | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 3as Yadav | 1 in 38K | 3 | — | — |
2,165,137 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling yaadav. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 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)
Yadava is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu.
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 339 | #9,643 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 330 | #12,481 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #190,657 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #243,996 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Yadava?
- A machine transcription gives /jədəvə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Yadava have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.2 million people named Yaadav, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yadava?
- In India, the national register counted 2,165,137 people named Yaadav, about 1 in 612 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yadavaThe 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, “Yadava”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.