Yazid
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jazid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yazid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 9.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yazid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #104 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Yazid | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Yazid | 29 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 4.4K | Yazid | 240 |
| MA Morocco | #724 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Yazid | 64 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Yazid | 42 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Yazid | 72 |
| BJ Benin | #418 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Yazid | 10 |
| US United States | — | 380 | 1 in 875K | 369 | Yazid | 122 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Yazid 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 kls, ravenous, greedy for food
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)
- Yazid Ib. 646SYsecond caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683)
- Yazid ibn al-Muhallabb. 673IQUmayyad provincial governor (672–720)
- Yazid IIb. 687SYUmayyad caliph
- Yazid IIIb. 701SYUmayyad caliph in 744
- Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybanib. 701Abbasid general and governor
- Zinedine Zidaneb. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench association football player and coach
- Yazid Mansourib. 1978FRAlgerian footballer
- Yazeed Al-Rajhib. 1981SAnot in their usual nameBusinessman & Racing Driver
- Yazid ibn Abi SufyanSA7th-century Arab military commander
- Yazid ibn Ziyadumayyad General and governor in 680s
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 52 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 60 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Yazid?
- A machine transcription gives /jazid/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Yazid a male or female name?
- Yazid 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.
- In which country does Yazid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Yazid in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yazid.
- How common is the name Yazid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Yazid in 2020, about 1 in 875 thousand residents.
- How common is Yazid compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Yazid is the 104th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yazid?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yazidThe 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, “Yazid” — the 104th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.