Yoù
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yoù is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘Friend’. Yu @ 1%Jade’. Jade is a symbol of purity, longevity, or immortality, also of feminine beauty. 2 ‘Rain’.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 139K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.3K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled You in US United States, HK Hong Kong, Ýou in EG Egypt and Youe in MY Malaysia.
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)
‘Friend’. Yu @ 1%Jade’. Jade is a symbol of purity, longevity, or immortality, also of feminine beauty. 2 ‘Rain’.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoù 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #559 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Yoù | 14 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Yoù | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Youe | 57 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Ýou | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,385 | 1 in 139K | 8.3K | You | 354 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Yoù | 14 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | You | 30 |
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 2020. 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 Yoù mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Friend’. Yu @ 1%Jade’. Jade is a symbol of purity, longevity, or immortality, also of feminine beauty. 2 ‘Rain’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Yoù a male or female name?
- Yoù 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.
- In which country does Yoù have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Yoù in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoù.
- How common is the name Yoù?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,385 people named Yoù in 2020, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoù compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Yoù is the 559th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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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%B9The 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, “Yoù” — the 559th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.