Yae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The Korean vowel ㅒ (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ʝae/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Yae is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 510K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 620K
- CNChina≈1 in 1.1Mfew records
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 Yae itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 315K (inferred from the name graph)
1,770 named Ya, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yae in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ya in US United States, IN India, CN China and 1 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.
How to pronounce Yae
- Spanish:/ʝae/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The Korean vowel ㅒ.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yae 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,770as Ya | 1 in 188K | 1.3K | Ya | 212 |
| CN China | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ya | 41 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Ya | 41 |
| SE Sweden | 123as Ya | 1 in 83K | 123 | — | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 107as Ya | 1 in 2M | 107 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 106as Ya | 1 in 163K | 99 | Ya | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | 12as Ya | 1 in 425K | 12 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Yae | 5 |
1,770 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Niijima Yaeb. 1845JPJapanese former soldier and nurse
- Yae MikimotoJPJapanese mangaka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yae mean, and where does it come from?
- The Korean vowel ㅒ. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yae a male or female name?
- Yae is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Yae?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ʝae/; in Portuguese /ja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Yae?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Ya, more than in any other country we hold. After it come China, India, Sweden and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,770 people named Ya in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yae?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaeThe 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, “Yae” — ranked 8232nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.