Yayoi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Primavera
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑːjɔj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yayoi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 6.6Mas יאיוי(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yayoi 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1 named יאיוי, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est., as יאיוי
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled יאיוי in IL Israel.
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)
Primavera
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yayoi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | יאיוי | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | 378 | Yayoi | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 67 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | 20 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | 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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Yayoi 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.
In English, An ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).
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)
- Yoshioka Yayoib. 1871JPJapanese activist and physician (1871–1959)
- Yayoi Aokib. 1927JPJapanese writer and critic (1927-2009)
- Kusama Yayoib. 1929JPJapanese artist (born 1929)
- Yayoi Jingujib. 1965JPJapanese voice actress (1965-2017)
- Yayoi Nakazawab. 1965JPJapanese seiyū
- Yayoi Kimurab. 1965JPJapanese nurse
- Yayoi Yanagidab. 1979JPJapanese AV idol
- Yayoi Kobayashib. 1981JPJapanese association football player
- Yayoi Hayaseb. 1987JPJapanese seiyū
- Yayoi Matsumotob. 1990JPJapanese swimmer
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 378 | #25,184 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 67 | #29,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #59,447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 33 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 24 | #57,720 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #27,875 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #26,996 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #25,878 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Yayoi mean, and where does it come from?
- Primavera Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Yayoi?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑːjɔj/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Yayoi a male or female name?
- Yayoi is a female 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.
- In which country does Yayoi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1 people named יאיוי in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yayoi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1 people in Israel have יאיוי as their first surname, about 1 in 6.6 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Yayoi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yayoiThe 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, “Yayoi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.