Yaffa

given name · Latin script

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

/jəfə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yaffa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 566K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 656as יפה
  • QAQatar≈1 in 834as יפה

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 Yaffa 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.

Israel (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 named יפה, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 566K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

יפהHebrew(measured from records)
YafehLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled יפה in IL Israel, MA Morocco, US United States and 3 more and Yafeh in AF Afghanistan.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yaffa 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 Yaffa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#52≈13,000 est.≈1 in 6562.8Kיפה52
AF Afghanistan—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Yafeh3
MA Morocco#517≈5,500 est.≈1 in 6.5K—יפה3
RO Romania#515≈4,600 est.≈1 in 4.7K—יפה4
SK Slovakia#425≈3,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—יפה1
QA Qatar#105≈2,900 est.≈1 in 834—יפה1
US United States—5881 in 566K716יפה100

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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)

Yaffa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Yàffa, Yąffą, Yâffã

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Israel, Netherlands

    Also written Яффа

41 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yaffa 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.

  • Jewish: variant of JAFFE . It has become very popular as a modern Hebrew translation of SHAYNA .

    as a word

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Yaffa Eliachb. 1937USPolish American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust
  • Yaffa Ben-AriILIsraeli diplomat

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Yaffa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020123#139,785
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010121#138,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Yaffa?
A machine transcription gives /jəfə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Yaffa a male or female name?
Yaffa 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.
What are other forms of the name Yaffa?
In the etymology graph, Yafa is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Yaffa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named יפה in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Yaffa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yaffa is densest in the United States — about 1 in 566 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yaffa?
In the United States, the national register counted 588 people named Yaffa in 2020, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.
How common is Yaffa compared with other names?
In Israel, Yaffa is the 52nd most common given name of 107,303 given names 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, “Yaffa” — the 52nd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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