# Yago (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yago/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | “james”, “jacob”, “he will/shall heel”, “heel” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 302 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 302 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,483 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,724 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,643 |
| 2014 | 10 | 8,101 |
| 2015 | 12 | 7,046 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5,119 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,741 |
| 2018 | 27 | 3,988 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5,545 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,220 |
| 2021 | 15 | 6,022 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,205 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,769 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,844 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,224 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Yago

- Yago Pikachu, Brazilian association football player
- Yago Mateus dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player (born 1999)
- Yago César, association football player
- Yago Felipe da Costa Rocha, Brazilian association football player
- Yago Fernando da Silva, Brazilian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.