Yon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 9.4Kas 연
- USUnited States1 in 20Kas Yan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
62,323 named Yan, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 연 in KR South Korea and Yeon in CN China.
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)
Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yon 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 | — | 62,323as Yan | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 16,856as Yan | 1 in 20K | 17K | Yon | 273 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Yeon | 27 |
| KR South Korea | #1000 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 37K | 연 | 205 |
| KP North Korea | #290 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1 | Yon | 21 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,630as Yan | 1 in 15K | 2.5K | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Yon | 35 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 601 | 1 in 48K | 601 | — | — |
62,323 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Yon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Flor de loto
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In otk, pec. to Uyğ.; the contexts suggest some such meaning as 'efficacity' of medical remedies
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In sco, that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Yongkom.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In okg, you; second-person singular pronoun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- John L. V. Murphyb. 1878not in their usual nameAmerican politician (1878–1933)
- John Bandmannb. 1982DEnot in their usual nameGerman clergyman
- Yon Gonzálezb. 1987ESSpain coach
- Yon Tumarkinb. 1989ILIsraeli actor
- Yon Joseph PaulianFRFrench politician
- Yon Aliagainstallation artist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 37K | #57 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,993 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #404,708 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #416,100 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Yon mean, and where does it come from?
- Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yon?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Yon a male or female name?
- Yon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Yon have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Yan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yon?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 601 people named Yon, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Yon compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Yon is the 290th most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yonThe 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, “Yon” — the 290th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.