Yero
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative spelling of gyro (Greek sandwich)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 553K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 19K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative spelling of gyros (Greek sandwich)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Yero is read(measured from records)
Yero is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
Alternative spelling of gyro (Greek sandwich)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish25%
any variety of bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yero in Swahili.
- French6.4%
alternative spelling of gyros (Greek sandwich)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Yero | 32 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Yero | 2 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 601 | 1 in 553K | 694 | Yero | 142 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 12 | Yero | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 101 | 1 in 34K | 101 | Yero | 9 |
| CU Cuba | #456 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Yero | 19 |
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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Yero is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A bom soldier
as a nameThe book of African names
In Filipino, galvanized iron sheets for roofing, etc.
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)
- Elvis Yerob. 1965CUCuban boxer
- Camilo Venegasb. 1967CUnot in their usual nameCuban writer and journalist
- Daniel YeroESresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 694 | #35,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 601 | #37,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 453 | #44,654 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 101 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Yero come from?
- alternative spelling of gyros (Greek sandwich) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Yero mean?
- In English, Alternative spelling of gyro (Greek sandwich)
- In which country does Yero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Yero in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yero.
- How common is the name Yero?
- In the United States, the national register counted 601 people named Yero in 2010, about 1 in 553 thousand residents.
- How common is Yero compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Yero is the 456th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yero?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yeroThe 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, “Yero” — the 456th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.