Yamano

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Yamano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 4.2M
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

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 Yamano 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.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈460 named ยะมะโน, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

YamanoLatin(measured from records)
ยะมะโนThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ยะมะโน in TH Thailand.

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)

Yamano 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 Yamano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand≈460 est.≈1 in 152K—ยะมะโน48
US United States1431 in 2.3M143—2
BR Brazil511 in 4.2M51——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

19201940196019802000Kōichi Yamano, b. 1939Fubito Yamano, b. 1941Takayoshi Yamano, b. 1955Yukiyoshi Yamano, b. 1962Satoko Yamano, b. 1963Umi Yamano, b. 1965Harumi Yamano, b. 1975Megumi, b. 1981Yuri Yamano, b. 1982

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)

FormalYamano様Dear Yamano-san, (English)
Informalこんにちは、YamanoさんHi Yamano, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Yamano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010143#120,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020133#132,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—51#103,379
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#164,962
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Yamano?
A machine transcription gives /jɑmənəw/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Yamano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 455 people named ยะมะโน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Yamano most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yamano is densest in the United States — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yamano?
In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Yamano in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.

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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, “Yamano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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