Yasa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A monk, author of the Porāṇatīkā on the Khuddasikkhā’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jˈasa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yasa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 36K
- FIFinland1 in 136K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yaşa in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A monk, author of the Porāṇatīkā on the Khuddasikkhā.’ See also Mahāyasa.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yasa 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 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Yasa | 114 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Yaşa | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Yasa | 9 |
| US United States | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 190 | Yasa | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Yasa | 13 |
| FI Finland | 41 | 1 in 136K | 41 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Yasa 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.
In pi, A king of twentynine kappas ago; a previous birth of Rāmaṇeyya Thera.1
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, A palace occupied by Padumuttara Buddha in his last lay¬ life.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, A deva‚ present at the preaching of the Mahā Samaya Sut^a.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In Turkish, law, statute, code, written set of rules
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Kanun, düzen, töre.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Zeynep Yasab. 1983TRTurkish actor (born 1983)
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 28 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 190 | #101,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #27,431 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 31 | #26,702 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Yasa come from?
- A monk, author of the Porāṇatīkā on the Khuddasikkhā.’ See also Mahāyasa. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- How do you pronounce Yasa?
- A machine transcription gives /jˈasa/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Yasa mean?
- Recorded meaning: A monk, author of the Porāṇatīkā on the Khuddasikkhā.’
- In which country does Yasa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Yasa in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yasa.
- How common is the name Yasa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Yasa in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yasaThe 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, “Yasa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.