Yatim

surname · Latin script

Meaning: orphan; someone who has lost one of his or her parents

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 100K
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 37K

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)

≈2,700 people, est.

Sources
91 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

orphan; someone who has lost one of his or her parents

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yatim 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 Yatim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 100KlistedYatim76
MY Malaysia#378≈2,100 est.≈1 in 16K—Yatim53
MA Morocco—≈480 est.≈1 in 74K—Yatim8
IN India—≈240 est.≈1 in 5.5M1Yatim10
FR France—≈170 est.≈1 in 410K21—1
LB Lebanon—≈150 est.≈1 in 37K—Yatim4
SG Singapore—≈93 est.≈1 in 67K—Yatim18
ES Spain—551 in 909K55—5

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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yatim is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Morocco, Lebanon

    Also written Yatīm

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Yatîm

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yatīm

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yatim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, orphaned to father

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tsg, orphan (without both parents)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

FormalEncik Yatim yang dihormati,Dear Encik Yatim, (English)
InformalHelo Yatim,Hi Yatim, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Yatim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—55#41,917
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—55#41,513
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198114—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Yatim mean, and where does it come from?
orphan; someone who has lost one of his or her parents Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Yatim?
A machine transcription gives /jatim/ (IPA) for Malay.
In which country does Yatim have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Yatim in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yatim.
How common is the name Yatim?
In Spain, the national register counted 55 people named Yatim, about 1 in 909 thousand residents.
How common is Yatim compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Yatim is the 378th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Yatim” — the 378th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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