Yoñ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yoñ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,540 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
- VEVenezuela1 in 48K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 77K
- ESSpain1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
1,540 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yon in US United States, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 1 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
(measured from records)- Middle Englishyon(measured from records)
- Old Englishġeon(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jainaz(measured from records)
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yoñ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,540 | 1 in 216K | 3K | Yon | 96 |
| ES Spain | 619 | 1 in 81K | 619 | Yon | 62 |
| VE Venezuela | 601 | 1 in 48K | 601 | Yon | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 90 | 1 in 2.4M | 90 | Yon | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | 44 | 1 in 77K | 44 | — | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | 9 |
1,540 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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
- What does the name Yoñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Yoñ a male or female name?
- Yoñ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Yoñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Yoñ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yon. After it come Spain, Venezuela, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Yoñ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yoñ is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yoñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,540 people named Yoñ in 2020, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yo%C3%B1The 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, “Yoñ” — ranked 9157th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.