Yazdi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Aleppo; Ciudad de Mexico; Buenos Aires

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Yazdi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IRIran≈1 in 311K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 665K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 30K

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.

United States (measured from records)

500 people, 2010

Sources
192 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Aleppo; Ciudad de Mexico; Buenos Aires

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yazdi 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 Yazdi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5001 in 665K567Yazdi192
IL Israel≈290 est.≈1 in 30K—Yazdi13
IR Iran≈270 est.≈1 in 311K—Yazdi54
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 329K—Yazdi50
DE Germany≈110 est.≈1 in 745K—Yazdi47
SE Sweden631 in 162K63Yazdi16
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——

500 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Yazdi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iran, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

    Also written Yazdī, Ÿazdi, Yazdï

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yazdī

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Iran, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yazdī

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Yazdī

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, United States

    Also written יזדי, Yazdy

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001910192019301940Morteza Yazdi, b. 1907Morteza Haeri Yazdi, b. 1916Ebrahim Yazdi, b. 1931Mohammad Yazdi, b. 1931Esmail Yazdi, b. 1932Taqi Yazdi, b. 1935

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)

FormalDear Mr Yazdi,
InformalHi Yazdi,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Yazdi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020567#41,393
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010500#43,206
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000395#49,869
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—63#10,465
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#37,335
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Yazdi mean, and where does it come from?
Aleppo; Ciudad de Mexico; Buenos Aires Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Yazdi?
A machine transcription gives /jɑzdi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Yazdi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 500 people named Yazdi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yazdi.
How common is the name Yazdi?
In the United States, the national register counted 500 people named Yazdi in 2010, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.

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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, “Yazdi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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