Yaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as inflection of yacer:.
- USUnited States1 in 690Kas Yogi(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 190K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.3Kas Yogi
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 Yaga 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Yogi, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yogi in US United States, JP Japan, MY Malaysia and 4 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)
Rōmaji transcription of やが
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Yaga is read(measured from records)
Yaga is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yaga in English.
- Hindi19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yaga in Hindi.
- Swahili9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yaga in Swahili.
- Spanish8.7%
inflection of yacer:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Japanese7.7%
Rōmaji transcription of やが
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yaga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Yogi | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Yaga | 4 |
| US United States | 482as Yogi | 1 in 690K | 842 | Yogi | 190 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Yogi | 14 |
| JP Japan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Yogi | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Yogi | 19 |
| SG Singapore | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Yogi | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Yogi | 6 |
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 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Yaga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, by-product wastage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nys, a woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bjb, sister
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yxg, work
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Yaga come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of やが Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Yaga mean?
- In Spanish, inflection of yacer:
- In which country does Yaga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 thousand people named Yogi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yaga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 482 people named Yogi in 2020, about 1 in 690 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yaga?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yagaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.