Yayoi
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Meaning
“Japanese name for the old third lunar month, when trees and grasses grow ever more lush; famously borne by Yayoi Kusama, the polka-dot and infinity-room artist.”
How popular is Yayoi around the world?
In the United States, Yayoi is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. At the 2022 census, 59 people in Brazil were named Yayoi, ranked 59,447th, with a median age of 74.
Yayoi is on the official records of Brazil.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Yayoi is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Yayoi appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 59 people in Brazil were named Yayoi, ranked 59,447th, with a median age of 74.
Among people named Yayoi living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Montevideo City
last on record 2004
Yayoi is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Yayoi deep dive
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