Yimer

given name · Amharic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yimer is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia1 in 726◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 364K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 4.8M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18 ●

across 2 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
79 ●

5.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 364K ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

YimerLatin · Amharic●2.9K records
ይመርEthiopic · Amharic●2K records

Locally spelled ይመር in GB United Kingdom.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yimer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#264,9903.9K rec.——Yimer25
US United States—2351.4K rec.—528Yimer79
GB United Kingdom—2060 rec.——ይመር16
PE Peru—168 rec.——Yimer6
CR Costa Rica—140 rec.1 in 364K14Yimer1
AU Australia—753 rec.——Yimer13
ZA South Africa—713 rec.——Yimer1
CA Canada—538 rec.——Yimer12
PL Poland—4—1 in 9.6M4——
NO Norway——10 rec.—30—7
SE Sweden——1 rec.—23—4
NL Netherlands——5 rec.—6—5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Amharic2.9K41%
  • Spanish2.8K39%
  • English3305%
  • Arabic3154%
  • 2734%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Amharic2,86841%
Spanish2,75439%
English3305%
Arabic3154%
2734%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yimer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3.1K records spelled Yimer7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yimèr, Yîmer, Ýimer, Yîmęr, Ýíḿéŕ

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence●

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Yimer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020528#43,946
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010265#73,215
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—111—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—30#35,318
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—23#22,869
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—14#7,238
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#37,121
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19737—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20076#74,679
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19776—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19756—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 70 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yimer?
We estimate roughly 18 people bear Yimer (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Yimer have the most bearers?
Yimer is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled yimer.
How common is Yimer compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Yimer is the 26th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
Is Yimer a male or female name?
Yimer 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Yimer” — the 26th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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