Yobo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɔbo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yobo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 8.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 39K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 66K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yobo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 953 | Yobo | 5 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Yobo | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 241K | listed | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Yobo | 3 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | Yobo | 6 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Yobo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hwc, a person of (usually local) Korean descent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, a kind of banana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, white man
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)
- Albert Yobob. 1979NGNigerian footballer
- Joseph Yobob. 1980NGNigerian association football player (born 1980)
- Adaeze Yobob. 1990NGNigerian model
- Jimmy Yobob. 1992FRFrench rugby union 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 953 | #553 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #166,898 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #42 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Yobo mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yobo?
- A machine transcription gives /jɔbo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Yobo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Yobo in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yobo.
- How common is the name Yobo?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Yobo in 2008, about 1 in 12 million 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/yoboThe 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, “Yobo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.