Yena
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iːnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 532K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 31M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
273,791 people
Highest-authority source
India
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
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yena 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 273,791 | 1 in 4.8K | 274K | Yena | 7 |
| PL Poland | 72 | 1 in 532K | 42 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Yena | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | 484 | Yena | 145 |
| AU Australia | — | — | 1 | Yena | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | — | Yena | 2 |
273,791 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Yena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tsonga, he, she, him, her, it; third-person singular pronoun.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-phu, he, she, him, her, it; class 1 absolute pronoun.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, feminine of yon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ibg, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, where
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)
- Chang Ye-nab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean badminton player
- Kim Yea-Nab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean snowboarder
- Joo Yea-nab. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean volleyball player
- Jang Ye-nab. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Choi Ye-nab. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer (born 1999)
- Yang Ye-nab. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer, born 2000
- Jeong Ye-nab. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, born 2000
- Ye-Na ParkKRnot in their usual namePh.D. University of Pennsylvania 2014
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 274K | #92 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 83 | #5,920 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #56,919 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,602 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yena?
- A machine transcription gives /iːnə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Yena have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 274 thousand people named Yena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yena.
- Where is Yena most common?
- Yena is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yena?
- In India, the national register counted 273,791 people named Yena, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yena?
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/yenaThe 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, “Yena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.