Yiyi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hotty; sheila; dame (young attractive lady)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/iji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yiyi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 580K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 33K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hotty; sheila; dame (young attractive lady)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yiyi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Yiyi | 88 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Yiyi | 43 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Yiyi | 33 |
| CO Colombia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Yiyi | 22 |
| US United States | 574 | 1 in 580K | 494 | Yiyi | 142 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Yiyi | 19 |
| CL Chile | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | Yiyi | 23 |
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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Yiyi 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 ncj, three
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)- Liu Yiyib. 1974CNChinese Go player
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 494 | #18,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80 | #18,697 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yiyi mean, and where does it come from?
- hotty; sheila; dame (young attractive lady) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yiyi?
- A machine transcription gives /iji/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Yiyi a male or female name?
- Yiyi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Yiyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Yiyi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yiyi.
- How common is the name Yiyi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 574 people named Yiyi in 2020, about 1 in 580 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yiyi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yiyiThe 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, “Yiyi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.