Yèn

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 22K
  • SESweden1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,818 people, 2020

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yen in US United States, CR Costa Rica, NL Netherlands.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yèn 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 Yèn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,8181 in 38K8KYen107
SE Sweden—4001 in 26K400—2
NL Netherlands—2171 in 80K175Yen5
FI Finland—921 in 61K277—1
DK Denmark—651 in 90K55——
IS Iceland—161 in 22K16——
CR Costa Rica#695——96Yen21

8,818 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yèn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yen, Yến, Yên, Yén, Ÿen

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Yèn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Yèn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Yèn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yen.
Where is Yèn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yèn is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yèn?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,818 people named Yèn in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
How common is Yèn compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Yèn is the 695th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yèn” — the 695th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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