Yañay
surname · Latin script
Yañay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 112K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 290K
- CUCuba≈1 in 373K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 112K (inferred from the name graph)
447 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yanay in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yañay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 447 | 1 in 112K | 447 | Yanay | 25 |
| US United States | — | 213 | 1 in 1.6M | 195 | Yanay | 79 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 748K | — | Yanay | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 6 | Yanay | 15 |
| CU Cuba | #530 | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Yanay | 11 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 701K | 8 | Yanay | 13 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Yanay | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 728K | 1 | — | 3 |
447 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yañay have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 447 people named Yañay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanay.
- Where is Yañay most common?
- Yañay is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 112 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yañay?
- In Spain, the national register counted 447 people named Yañay, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Yañay compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Yañay is the 530th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ya%C3%B1ayThe 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, “Yañay” — the 530th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.