How common is the surname Yaw?

1,461 people in the United States had the surname Yaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. It ranked 18,766th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Yaw?

In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Yaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

Who is the most famous person named Yaw?

Shane Dawson, American Internet personality (born 1988).

Where is the surname Yaw most common?

Wikidata records people named Yaw in the United States.

Is the surname Yaw getting more or less common?

More common. 1,337 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,461 in 2010, up 9.3%.

The surname Yaw

A surname, carried by 1,461 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Y000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yaw is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,461 people named Yaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. That is up 9.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,337.

#18,766

rank among US surnames

1,461

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+9.3%

change since 2000 (was #18,892)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,757	Wilker	1,462	211,180
#18,766	Graddy	1,461	211,325

Who is named Yaw

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

78% of people named Yaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 78%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Yaws

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Shane Dawson
American Internet personality (born 1988)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Yaw

Yaw has the Soundex code Y000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y000.

Questions

How common is the surname Yaw?: 1,461 people in the United States had the surname Yaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. It ranked 18,766th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yaw?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Yaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Yaw?: Shane Dawson, American Internet personality (born 1988).
Where is the surname Yaw most common?: Wikidata records people named Yaw in the United States.
Is the surname Yaw getting more or less common?: More common. 1,337 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,461 in 2010, up 9.3%.