Yanez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʝaneθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yanez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Chile it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez.
- ECEcuador1 in 689(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 767
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 957
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- 1 in 689 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yañez in CL Chile, AR Argentina, UY Uruguay.
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)
Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez.
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yanez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #165 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 957 | — | Yanez | 75 |
| US United States | — | 25,563 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Yanez | 352 |
| EC Ecuador | #102 | 24,531 | 1 in 689 | 25K | Yanez | 70 |
| CL Chile | #51 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 767 | 1 | Yañez | 98 |
| AR Argentina | #485 | 10,956 | 1 in 4.2K | 11K | Yañez | 64 |
| HN Honduras | #201 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Yanez | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | #531 | 1,279 | 1 in 2.6K | 1.3K | Yañez | 28 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Henry Yanezb. 1957USAmerican politician in Michigan (born 1957)
- Diego Yanezb. 1958CHSwiss journalist and writer
- Roberto Yanezb. 1965USAmerican journalist and Chief Officer
- June Yanezb. 1997NLDutch actress (1997)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Yanez mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic surname borrowed from Spanish Yáñez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yanez?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝaneθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Yanez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Yanez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanez.
- Where is Yanez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yanez is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 689 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yanez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,563 people named Yanez in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Yanez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Yanez is the 165th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yanez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yanezThe 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, “Yanez” — the 165th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.