How common is the surname Yeoman?

2,302 people in the United States had the surname Yeoman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,121 Americans. It ranked 13,259th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Yeoman?

Owain Yeoman, British actor (born 1978), followed by Robert Yeoman.

Where is the surname Yeoman most common?

Wikidata records people named Yeoman in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Is the surname Yeoman getting more or less common?

More common. 2,259 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,302 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Yeoman

An occupational surname, carried by 2,302 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y550

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yeoman is more common than 91.8% of them.

Origin

From yeoman.

Yeoman is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,302 people named Yeoman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,121 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,259.

#13,259

rank among US surnames

2,302

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,573)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,251	Amey	2,304	134,004
#13,255	Blackledge	2,303	134,062
#13,259	Hershman	2,302	134,121
#13,263	Franko	2,301	134,179
#13,264	Paull	2,300	134,237
#13,267	Norby	2,299	134,296

Who is named Yeoman

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

88% of people named Yeoman identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Yeomans

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Owain Yeoman
British actor (born 1978)
Robert Yeoman
American cinematographer, born 1951

Notable Yeomans come mostly from the United Kingdom (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Yeaman
Youman

Yeoman has the Soundex code Y550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y550.

Questions

Where does the surname Yeoman come from?: From yeoman.
How common is the surname Yeoman?: 2,302 people in the United States had the surname Yeoman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,121 Americans. It ranked 13,259th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yeoman?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Yeoman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Yeoman?: Owain Yeoman, British actor (born 1978), followed by Robert Yeoman.
Where is the surname Yeoman most common?: Wikidata records people named Yeoman in the United Kingdom and the United States.
What type of surname is Yeoman?: Yeoman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Yeoman getting more or less common?: More common. 2,259 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,302 in 2010, up 1.9%.
What are other spellings of Yeoman?: Yeaman and Youman.