Yoni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/joni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yoni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.3K
- VEVenezuela1 in 3.9Kas Yonny
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 Yoni 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
25,986 named Joni, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, 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 יוני in IL Israel and Йони in FI Finland.
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)
The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoni 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 | — | 25,986as Joni | 1 in 13K | 25K | Yoni | 205 |
| FI Finland | — | 15,287as Joni | 1 in 364 | 16K | Йони | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 7,356as Yonny | 1 in 3.9K | 7.4K | Yoni | 21 |
| PE Peru | #831 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Yoni | 49 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,457as Jony | 1 in 61K | 5.1K | Yoni | 27 |
| HN Honduras | #381 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Yoni | 19 |
| IL Israel | #608 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 131 | יוני | 92 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 532 | 1 in 32K | 645 | Yoni | 23 |
25,986 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling joni. 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; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Yoni is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, yoni (Hindu symbol)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, womb
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)
- Yoni Hamenachemb. 1942ILIsraeli photographer
- Yoni Azranb. 1975ILbadminton player
- Yoni Goodmanb. 1976ILIsraeli animator
- Yoni Wolfb. 1979USAmerican musician
- Yoni Weizmanb. 1979ILIsraeli writer
- Yoni Blochb. 1981ILIsraeli singer
- Yoshib. 1983ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli musician
- Yoni Buyensb. 1988BEfootballer
- Yoni Berkovitsscreenwriter
- Yoni AppelbaumUSAmerican journalist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Yoni mean, and where does it come from?
- The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Yoni?
- In the etymology graph, Jonathan, Jon and Johnathan are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Yonatan.
- How do you pronounce Yoni?
- A machine transcription gives /joni/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Yoni a male or female name?
- Yoni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yoni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Joni, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yoni?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 532 people named Yoni, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoni compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Yoni is the 381st most common given name of 23,588 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/yoniThe 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, “Yoni” — the 381st most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.