Yamina
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yamina is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a Sukradeva (P).
- FRFrance1 in 6.6K◐
- ESSpain1 in 19K
- ARArgentina1 in 96K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 6.6K ◐
across 10 countries
53K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
a Sukradeva (P)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #716 | 10,245 | 42K rec. | 1 in 6.6K | 10K | Yamina | 241 |
| AR Argentina | — | 7,120 | 4.9K rec. | — | 2 | Yamina | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,567△ | 997 rec. | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | Yamina | 43 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,338 | 1K rec. | — | 14 | Yamina | 50 |
| BE Belgium | — | 928 | 746 rec. | — | 6 | Yamina | 20 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 645 | 631 rec. | — | — | Yamina | 13 |
| PE Peru | — | 582 | 411 rec. | — | — | Yamina | 26 |
| US United States | — | 468 | 889 rec. | 1 in 711K | 468 | Yamina | 82 |
| MA Morocco | — | 465 | 332 rec. | — | listed | Yamina | 12 |
| DZ Algeria | #792 | 456 | 421 rec. | — | listed | Yamina | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 192△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 90K | 192 | Yamina | 10 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 188 | 100 rec. | — | — | Yamina | 6 |
Roughly 10K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 6.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French83K67%
- Spanish19K16%
- Arabic6.8K6%
- Catalan2.6K2%
- English2.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 83,096 | 67% |
| Spanish | 19,264 | 16% |
| Arabic | 6,831 | 6% |
| Catalan | 2,567 | 2% |
| English | 2,563 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yamina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Jamina: weibl. Vom. ara bischer Herkunft (arab. yamin »rechter Hand, glücklich«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1995 | 11 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yamina Bachirb. 1954DZAlgerian film director (1954–2022)
- Yamina Bouchammab. 1955CAuniversity professor
- Yamina Benguiguib. 1957FRFrench Algerian filmmaker
- Yamina Zoghlamib. 1970TNTunisian politician
- Yamina Zoutatb. 1970CHSwiss journalist
- Yamina Benahmed Dahob. 1979FRFrench writer
- Yamina Bouticheb. 1988DZAlgerian doctor, researcher and university teacher
- Yamina Halatab. 1991DZAlgerian judoka
- Yamina SahebDZAlgerian energy policy analyst
- Yamina Madiha Abada-BoudjemaFRFrench researcher and malacologist
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●
Attested in 57 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yamina?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Yamina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yamina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Yamina in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yamina.
- How common is Yamina compared with other names?
- In France, Yamina is the 716th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Yamina a male or female name?
- Yamina is a female 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.
- What does the name Yamina mean?
- Recorded meaning: a Sukradeva (P)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Yamina” — the 716th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.