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Yago

Gender
Boy
Origin
Spanish
US rank, 2025
#7,675 for boys

Yago is a boys' name of Spanish origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Yago mean?

Spanish

A male given name from Spanish.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Yago a girl's or a boy's name?

Yago is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yago in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 5 boys.

2006Busiest: 5 in 20162022
Yago in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20223#5,017
20215#3,614
20201#6,143
20194#4,126
20180–
20173#4,995
20165#3,655
20154#4,086
20143#4,829
20132#6,127
20123#4,999
20110–
20100–
20093#4,691
20080–
20071#5,736
20064#3,522

How popular is Yago in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 60% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Yago, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 1975.

Half of all the boys named Yago in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1975Busiest: 27 in 20182025
Yago in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
20248#8,982
20237#9,757
202219#5,015
202115#5,771
202018#5,037
201917#5,336
201827#3,887
201721#4,590
201619#4,941
201512#6,671
201410#7,557
201316#5,400
20127#9,703
201111#7,002
20108#8,797
200914#6,091
20089#8,319
200713#6,259
20067#9,579
200512#6,220
20045#11,348
20036#9,574
20026#9,385
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19755#5,462

Names like Yago

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Spanish names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Yago: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yago, updated 20 October 2026.