Yeo

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Yeo
Language(s)Chinese (usually Hokkien), English, Korean
Other names
Variant form(s)
  • Chinese: Yang, Yeung; Yao, Yiu
  • English: Yoe, Youe
  • Korean: Ryŏ, Lyuh

Yeo is a Chinese, English, and Korean surname.

Origins

As an English surname, Yeo is a toponymic surname meaning "river", either for people who lived near one of the Rivers Yeo, or any river in general. The word comes from Old English ea , via south-western Middle English ya , yo , or yeo . Variant spellings include Yoe and Youe. [1]

Contents

As a Chinese surname, Yeo is a spelling of the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese of a number of distinct surnames, listed below by their pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese: [1]

As a Korean surname, the Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) spelling Yeo (Korean : 여) could correspond to any of three modern surnames: [2]

Additionally, two historical Korean surnames are also spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization:

Statistics

Yeo was the 13th-most common Chinese surname in Singapore as of 1997 (ranked by English spelling, rather than by Chinese characters). Roughly 36,600 people, or 1.5% of the Chinese Singaporean population, bore the surname Yeo. [3]

The 2000 South Korean census found 23,358 households and 65,196 people with the surnames spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization, divided among 17,498 households and 56,692 people for Beopchik Yeo, 5,741 households and 18,146 people for Na Yeo, and 119 people and 358 households for Neo Yeo. [2]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 2,529 people on the island of Great Britain and 20 on the island of Ireland with the surname Yeo as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 1,565 people with the surname in Great Britain, mainly in Devon, while in mid-19th-century Ireland it was found primarily in Dublin and Kilkenny. [1]

The 2010 United States Census found 2,805 people with the surname Yeo, making it the 11,272nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,194 (12,858th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 Census, about 55% of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and four-tenths as White. [4] It was the 871st-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian. [5]

People

Chinese surnames

Chinese surnames Yáng (traditional Chinese:楊; simplified Chinese:杨) or Yáo (Chinese:姚):

Korean surnames

Korean surnames (Korean: 여; Hanja: 呂, 余, 汝, 麗, or 餘):

Other

People with other surnames spelled Yeo, or people for whom the Chinese characters of their names are not available:

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 2981, 2983, 2985. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. 1 2 "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Popular Chinese Surnames in Singapore". Statistics Singapore Newsletter. Vol. 20, no. 2. October 1997. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay . Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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