Yuma

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yuma is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: United States of America.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 245K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 640K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 850K

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

≈520 ●

across 8 countries

Sources
107 ●

15K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 640K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yu-Ma in JP Japan.

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●

United States of America

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Yuma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States361190 rec.1 in 921K361—86
JP Japan29515K rec.——Yu-Ma107
BR Brazil57—1 in 3.7M57——
ES Spain47△11 rec.1 in 1.1M47—4
NL Netherlands270 rec.1 in 640K27—2
SE Sweden120 rec.1 in 850K12—1
CR Costa Rica6—1 in 850K6——
DK Denmark5—1 in 1.2M5——
PL Poland5—1 in 7.7M5——
AR Argentina—0 rec.—69—1
FI Finland———25——
EC Ecuador—0 rec.—25—1

Roughly 361 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 921K). 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●

  • English214K19%
  • Spanish82K7%
  • Azerbaijani2901%
  • sb51%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English213,88019%
Spanish81,7847%
Azerbaijani2901%
sb51%

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◐

Yuma is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3.5K records spelled Yuma63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, United States, Russia, Oman

    Languages: English, Arabic, Russian

    Also written Juma, Джума, Jum'A, Dzhuma, Юма

  • Spanish name3.0K records spelled Yuma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia

    Also written Yümä, Yüma

  • a separate name171 records spelled Yuma2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yūma

  • Chinese name154 records spelled Yuma2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yu-Ma

45 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.

Other recorded senses●

Yuma 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.

  • In English, city, AZ; county, AZ, CO; N.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, prov, city, China

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Yunnan [Kunming]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, American people

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, American: the son of chief

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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●

0204060196019802000202042 · 2023

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Yuma in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1949–2024
Yearrecords
19491
19501
19511
19531
19541
19582
19594
19611
19622
19632
19642
19654
19664
19673
19683
19691
19706
19712
19723
19733
19744
19752
19766
19775
19785
19793
198010
19813
19824
19836
19847
198513
19864
198712
198812
19899
19905
19915
199213
199312
199419
199512
199622
199712
199818
199919
200019
200110
200215
200330
200418
200521
200639
200738
200841
200922
201019
201116
201228
201337
201414
201525
201627
201729
201831
201924
202015
202114
202224
202342
202425

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 71 years between 1949–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Yūma Kusakawa, b. 1959Yuma Nakamura, b. 1970Yuma Ishigaki, b. 1982Yuma Asami, b. 1987Yuma Uchida, b. 1992Yūma Koishi, b. 1993Masaya Yuma, b. 1993Yuma Nakayama, b. 1994Yūma Suzuki, b. 1996Yuma Kagiyama, b. 2003

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 45 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Yuma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020361#19,459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182#19,459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020147#123,144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010100#160,975
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—69—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202257—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—53#60,880
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—47#29,300
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—46#13,422
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—37#42,082
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—27#9,742
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26#164,002

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 · 292 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yuma?
We estimate roughly 520 people bear Yuma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Yuma have the most bearers?
We estimate about 361 people bear Yuma in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
What does the name Yuma mean?
Recorded meaning: United States of America
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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, “Yuma”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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