Yota
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yota is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: manger de la bouillie ; coller.
- JPJapan≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.1M
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
manger de la bouillie ; coller
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yota 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Yota | 68 |
| US United States | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Yota | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Yota | 5 |
| RU Russia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Yota | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Yota 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, manger de la bouillie ; coller
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In umb, warm one's self by a fire
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, warm self by fire
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Yota Araseb. 1982JPJapanese swimmer
- Yota Satob. 1984JPboxer
- Yōta Kosugib. 1985JPBusinessman. Former Japanese baseball player
- Yota Akimotob. 1987JPJapanese association football player
- Yota Tsujib. 1993JPJapanese professional wrestler
- Yota Kyodab. 1994JPJapanese baseball player
- Yota Shimokawab. 1995JPJapanese association football player (1995-)
- Yota Horiuchib. 2004JPJapanese association football player
- Yota Fujiib. 2006JPJapanese association football player
- Yota NobitomeJPJapanese animator
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Yota mean, and where does it come from?
- manger de la bouillie ; coller Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Yota a male or female name?
- Yota 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 Yota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Yota in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yota.
- How common is the name Yota?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 2 people named Yota in 2025, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yotaThe 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, “Yota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.