Yuman

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Of or relating to a language family spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ʝuman/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Yuman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

236 people, 2010

Record sources
68 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Of or relating to a language family spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Yuman is found

(measured from records)

Yuman 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.

Where Yuman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2361 in 1.4M246Yuman68
AR Argentina261 in 1.7M26—1
PH Philippines———Yuman9
NG Nigeria———Yuman1
GB United Kingdom———Yuman11
MY Malaysia———Yuman8
RE Réunion———Yuman1

236 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Yuman is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ýűmäņ

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, China, United States

    Also written Yu-Man

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Yumán, Yu-Man

  • Thai surname64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, China

    Also written อยู่มั่น, ยีมิน, ยิมัน, อัยมัน, ยูมิน

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)
FormalEstimado/a Yuman,Dear Yuman, (English)
InformalHola Yuman,Hi Yuman, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yuman mean, and where does it come from?
Of or relating to a language family spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Yuman?
In Spanish /ʝuman/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Yuman?
In the United States, the national register counted about 236 people named Yuman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yuman. After it come Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Yuman most common?
Yuman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Yuman?
In the United States, the national register counted 236 people named Yuman in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Yuman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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