The surname Yuen
A Chinese surname, carried by 7,688 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex Y500
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Cantonese 袁 (jyun4) or 阮 (jyun2).
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 7,688 people named Yuen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,159 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,990.
Who is named Yuen
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Yuen identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 5.5% as two or more races and 4.1% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 87%
- Two or more races 5.5%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Yuen has the Soundex code Y500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y500.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Yuen come from?
- Borrowed from Cantonese 袁 (jyun4) or 阮 (jyun2).
- How common is the surname Yuen?
- 7,688 people in the United States had the surname Yuen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,159 Americans. It ranked 4,614th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Yuen?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Yuen identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 5.5% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Yuen getting more or less common?
- More common. 6,990 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,688 in 2010, up 10%.