Given name & surname
Yo
“one who is honest”
Yo is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is honest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is honest.”
Where it comes from
Yo is a variant of Yoko. An origin associated with Yoko is Japanese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 9
- 0 boys · 9 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 819 as a first name in 2020; 630 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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