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    The surname Yeh

    A Chinese surname, carried by 6,958 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex Y000

    Yeh: #5,046 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yeh #5,046, 6,958 people Yeh: #5,046 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yeh #5,046, 6,958 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yeh is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    Chinese origin

    From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 葉／叶 (Yeh⁴).

    One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,958 people named Yeh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,373 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,153.

    #5,046
    rank among US surnames
    6,958
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.1%
    change since 2000 (was #5,214)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,040Fishman6,96244,347
    #5,043Heffernan6,96144,354
    #5,045Real6,95944,366
    #5,046Yeh6,95844,373
    #5,047Beeson6,95244,411
    #5,048Beardsley6,95044,424

    Who is named Yeh

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

    93% of people named Yeh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.4% as two or more races and 2.5% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 93%
    • Two or more races 3.4%
    • White (not Hispanic) 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Yeh

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

    Other Chinese surnames

    All 193 Chinese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Yeh come from?
    From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 葉／叶 (Yeh⁴).
    How common is the surname Yeh?
    6,958 people in the United States had the surname Yeh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,373 Americans. It ranked 5,046th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yeh?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Yeh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Yeh getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,153 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,958 in 2010, up 13%.