Yayo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: grandpa, pops
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʝaʝo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yayo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 77K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
grandpa, pops
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Yayo is read(measured from records)
Yayo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish44%
grandpa, pops
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
cocaine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Japanese6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yayo in Japanese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yayo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 320 | — | — |
| CO Colombia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Yayo | 13 |
| US United States | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Yayo | 37 |
| CL Chile | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 1 | Yayo | 10 |
| ES Spain | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Yayo | 22 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Yayo | 9 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Yayo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a male nanny; manny; male caregiver/caretaker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, male nanny; manny; male caregiver/caretaker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, grandpa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘graceful’, ‘skilful’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Yayo Apariciob. 1949ESSpanish record producer and co-founder of Nuevos Medios
- Yayob. 1961COwriter and illustrator
- Yayo Guridib. 1965ARArgentinian actor and comedian
- Yayo Herrerob. 1965ESSpanish anthropologist, engineer, professor and ecofeminist activist
- Yayo Lópezb. 1965PEPeruvian journalist
- Yayo Aguilab. 1967PHFilipino actress
- Yayo Moralesb. 1967BOBolivian composer
- Yayo Daportab. 1975ESSpanish cook
- Yayo Gonzálezactor and film composer
- Yayo SánchezRock Musician
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 320 | #1,456 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Yayo mean, and where does it come from?
- grandpa, pops Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yayo?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝaʝo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Yayo a male or female name?
- Yayo 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 are other forms of the name Yayo?
- In the etymology graph, Yaya and Yeyo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 404 people named Yayo in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yayo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 400 people in Côte d’Ivoire have Yayo as their first given name, about 1 in 68 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yayoThe 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, “Yayo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.