Yamaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yamaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.3M(measured from records)
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3M (inferred from the name graph)
40 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yamaga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 40 | Yamaga | 27 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 1 | — | — |
40 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yamaga Sokob. 1622JPJapanese philosopher (1622-1685)
- Hatanoshin Yamagab. 1860JPJapanese pastor
- Jamaga Taiĵib. 1892JPnot in their usual nameJapanese Esperantist
- Seiji Yamagab. 1916JPJapanese geographer (1916-2005)
- Eiko Hanamurab. 1929JPnot in their usual nameJapanese mangaka
- Kyōko Yamagab. 1959JPJapanese architect
- Hiroyuki Yamagab. 1962JPJapanese anime director and producer
- Takayuki Yamagab. 1982JPJapanese film director
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
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
- In which country does Yamaga have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 40 people named Yamaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yamaga.
- Where is Yamaga most common?
- Yamaga is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yamaga?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 40 people named Yamaga, about 1 in 5.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Yamaga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yamagaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yamaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.