Yâw
surname · Latin script
Yâw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,320 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century.
- SESweden1 in 102K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- NLNetherlands1 in 134K
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)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
1,320 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yaw in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma), ES Spain.
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)- Old Norsejaga“to chase“to chase, drive, move back and forth”(measured from records)
- Middle Low Germanjagen“to hunt“to hunt, chase, pursue”(measured from records)
- Old Saxon*jagōn(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*jagōn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jakkōną“to hunt”(measured from records)
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yâw 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 | — | 1,320 | 1 in 252K | 1.5K | Yaw | 62 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 129 | 1 in 134K | 129 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 103 | 1 in 486K | 103 | Yaw | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 39 | 1 in 143K | 86 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #474 | — | — | — | Yaw | 14 |
1,320 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yâw mean, and where does it come from?
- Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Yâw?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Yâw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaw. After it come Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Yâw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yâw is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 102 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yâw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,320 people named Yâw in 2020, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
- How common is Yâw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Yâw is the 474th most common given name of 9,528 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/y%C3%A2wThe 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, “Yâw” — ranked 10203rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.