Yelma
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/ʝelma/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Yelma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 2.1Kas Elma(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2.4Kas Elma
- SESweden1 in 3.8Kas Elma
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yelma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
14,440 named Elma, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland, as Elma
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elma in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden and 1 more and Jelma in BR Brazil.
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)Yelma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 14,440as Elma | 1 in 15K | 16K | Jelma | 25 |
| US United States | — | 8,574as Elma | 1 in 39K | 8.4K | Elma | 279 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,653as Elma | 1 in 3.8K | 2.7K | Elma | 31 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,350as Elma | 1 in 2.4K | 11K | — | 10 |
| PH Philippines | #761 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Elma | 89 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 533as Elma | 1 in 3.9K | 563 | — | 7 |
| AL Albania | — | 476as Elma | 1 in 6.5K | 476 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | #998 | 168as Elma | 1 in 2.1K | 168 | Elma | 20 |
14,440 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling elma. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jean-Luc Yelmab. 1965FRFrench politician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Yelma?
- In Spanish /ʝelma/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Yelma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Elma, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yelma most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yelma itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Iceland's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people named Elma.
- How common is the name Yelma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,440 people named Elma in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Yelma compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Yelma is the 761st most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yelma?
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/yelmaThe 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, “Yelma” — the 761st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.