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The surname Yeomans

A surname, carried by 2,990 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y552

Yeomans: #10,689 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yeomans #10,689, 2,990 people Yeomans: #10,689 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yeomans #10,689, 2,990 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yeomans is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,990 people named Yeomans in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,259 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,847.

#10,689
rank among US surnames
2,990
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+5%
change since 2000 (was #10,369)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,681Banas2,993103,156
#10,683Hayashi2,992103,190
#10,686Runkle2,991103,225
#10,689Guice2,990103,259
#10,692Spiers2,989103,294
#10,697Zellers2,988103,328

Who is named Yeomans

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

93% of people named Yeomans identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Yeomans

Yeomans has the Soundex code Y552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y552.

Questions

How common is the surname Yeomans?
2,990 people in the United States had the surname Yeomans in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,259 Americans. It ranked 10,689th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yeomans?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Yeomans identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Yeomans getting more or less common?
More common. 2,847 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,990 in 2010, up 5.0%.