Yomo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of よも
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
/iomo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Yomo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 28Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.9Mfew records
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Rōmaji transcription of よも
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yomo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Yomo | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Yomo | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Yomo | 8 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39M | 5 | Yomo | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 19M | 7 | Yomo | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Yomo | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Yomo | 4 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Yomo 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 zos, woman
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)- Akito Yomob. 1943JPJapanese composer
- Harumi Yomob. 1957JPJapanese actress
- Tetsuya Yomob. 1963JPJapanese engineer
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Yomo mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of よも Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yomo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /iomo/; in Swahili /jomo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Yomo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Yomo in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yomo.
- How common is the name Yomo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,100 people in Cameroon have Yomo as their first surname, about 1 in 28 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yomoThe 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, “Yomo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.