Yag
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of yttrium aluminium garnet: a synthetic material used in lasers and formerly as an artificial gemstone
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/iæɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.6M(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 84K
- ATAustria≈1 in 519K
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.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of yttrium aluminium garnet: a synthetic material used in lasers and formerly as an artificial gemstone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yag 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Yag | 1 |
| US United States | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | Yag | 75 |
| IN India | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | 15 | Yag | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Yag | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Yag | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Yag | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Yag is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Yámana.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, filter-avoidance spelling of gay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pap, to hunt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rea, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, hunt
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #19,065 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #4,997 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #72,860 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #282,211 |
| 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
- What does the name Yag mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of yttrium aluminium garnet: a synthetic material used in lasers and formerly as an artificial gemstone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yag?
- A machine transcription gives /iæɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Yag have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 386 people named Yag in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yag.
- How common is the name Yag?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Yag in 2007, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yagThe 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, “Yag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.