Yashpal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘protector of splendour’ (A concise dictionary of first names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Yashpal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Yashpal is also written যশপাল in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 47K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.9Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yashpal in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)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)Sanskrit: ‘protector of splendour’. Z
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yashpal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 33 | Yashpal | 148 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Yashpal | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Yashpal | 2 |
| KE Kenya | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 948K | — | Yashpal | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 9 | Yashpal | 34 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Yashpal | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Yashpal | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Yashpal | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 16 | 1 in 47K | 16 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Yashpal Aryab. 1952INIndian politician
- Yashpal Sharmab. 1954INIndian cricket player. (1954–2021)
- Yashpal Sharmab. 1967INIndian actor
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Yashpal come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘protector of splendour’. Z Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Yashpal a male or female name?
- Yashpal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yashpal mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘protector of splendour’.
- Which countries have the most people named Yashpal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Yashpal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yashpal. After it come United States, Indonesia, Kenya and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yashpal?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 16 people named Yashpal in 2025, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yashpal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yashpalThe 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, “Yashpal” — ranked 58401st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.