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Yago

#8,220 in 2025Boys' name

Heel

Yago has been given to 302 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,220 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Yago, 2025

1 in 332,000

Yago over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yago: meaning, origin, and history

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Spanish and Latin

What Yago means

Yago means “heel”, associated with ‘āqḗḇ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Spanish Yago, from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Iago, Jago, James, Jacob, and Jacques.

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Origin, language, and formation

Yago is used in English, Old Spanish and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish and Latin.

Yago comes through Spanish Yago, Latin Iacobus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος and Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob, Iago, Jago, James, Jacques, Jayme, Jacobo and Jaime.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Yago is pronounced /ˈʝaɡo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 302 boys were recorded with the name Yago between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,984 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,216 in 2020 to #8,220 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,041 in 2015 to #8,220 in 2025.

How common is Yago?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,220
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yago sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yago. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yagos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yago was born before 2016 — so the typical Yago is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
302
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Yago rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,619
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,004
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,179
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2018 (27)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,984
2018

Spellings of Yago

Yago is not the most common spelling — Gage is, with 40.7% against Yago's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yago is used

Across 1910–2025, Yago was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 639,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yago has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yago around the world

Where Yago ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2002–2025
    #3,002
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yago by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,220
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,004
Best rank ever
#3,984
2018
Peak year
2018
27 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
302
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Yago

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yago

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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