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    The surname Yielding

    A place surname, carried by 534 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y435

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yielding is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational surname from the villages of Yeldon, in Bedfordshire, or Yalding, in Kent.

    Yielding is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 534 people named Yielding in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. That is up 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 487.

    #40,856
    rank among US surnames
    534
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.7%
    change since 2000 (was #41,995)

    Who is named Yielding

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

    96% of people named Yielding identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Yielding come from?
    Habitational surname from the villages of Yeldon, in Bedfordshire, or Yalding, in Kent.
    How common is the surname Yielding?
    534 people in the United States had the surname Yielding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. It ranked 40,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yielding?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Yielding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    What type of surname is Yielding?
    Yielding is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Yielding getting more or less common?
    More common. 487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 534 in 2010, up 9.7%.