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The YEE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,483 1687 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 253 16196 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +19230 +14509 +0.006 +67
Other Countries
Australia 729 2224 0.004 45
United Kingdom 258 14061 0.001 6
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of YEE

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the YEE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of YEE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 450 2.31
Black/African American 94 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.1
Asian/Pacific 16,849 86.48
Mixed Race 1,070 5.49
White (Caucasian) 1,001 5.14

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the YEE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of YEE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of YEE.

Similar names to YEE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as YEE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for YEE

The following words are slight variants of YEE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.