Yod
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yod is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bouillie ; échec.
- THThailand≈1 in 9.6Kas ยอด(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.9M
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yod itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named ยอด, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ยอด in TH Thailand and โยธี in ID Indonesia.
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)
bouillie ; échec
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yod 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #743 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | #510,059 | ยอด | 71 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | โยธี | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | — | Yod | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 28as Yord | 1 in 617K | 28 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | 35 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 10as Yord | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 3 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Yod 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 Breton, porridge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, bouillie ; échec
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Latvian, Ebreju alfabēta 10. burts
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #29,809 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 2 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yod mean, and where does it come from?
- bouillie ; échec Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Yod?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑd/ (IPA) for Thai.
- Is Yod a male or female name?
- Yod 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 Yod have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named ยอด in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yod?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Yod in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Yod compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Yod is the 743rd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yod?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yodThe 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, “Yod” — the 743rd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.