The surname Yeung
A Chinese surname, carried by 7,782 people in the United States.
Pronounced /jʌŋ/ 1 syllable Soundex Y520
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Cantonese 楊 /杨 (joeng4).
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 7,782 people named Yeung in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,674 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,464.
Who is named Yeung
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Yeung identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.8% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 96%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Yeung has the Soundex code Y520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y520.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Yeung come from?
- Borrowed from Cantonese 楊 /杨 (joeng4).
- How common is the surname Yeung?
- 7,782 people in the United States had the surname Yeung in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,674 Americans. It ranked 4,556th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Yeung?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Yeung identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Yeung?
- Yeung is /jʌŋ/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Yeung getting more or less common?
- More common. 6,464 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,782 in 2010, up 20%.