Yasha
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yasha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake.
- USUnited States1 in 606K(measured from records)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 39Kas Яша
- RURussia≈1 in 108Kas Яша
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 Yasha 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.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Яша in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 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)
A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yasha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Yasha | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Яша | 104 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,026as Jaša | 1 in 2K | 1K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 549 | 1 in 606K | 299 | Yasha | 200 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 153 | Яша | 33 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Яша | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #645 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Яша | 8 |
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; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Yasha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Russian: pet form of YAKOV .
as a word
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)
- Yasha Davidb. 1953FRFrench art critic and curator
- Yasha Youngb. 1972USdirector and curator
- Yashab. 1981DEGerman rapper
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Yasha mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Yasha?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jay and Jaime are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Yakov.
- Is Yasha a male or female name?
- Yasha is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yasha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Yasha in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yasha.
- How common is the name Yasha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 549 people named Yasha in 2020, about 1 in 606 thousand residents.
- How common is Yasha compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Yasha is the 645th most common given name of 7,499 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yashaThe 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, “Yasha” — the 645th most common given name in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.