Ýê

given name · Latin script

Ýê is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 22nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 264K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 5.4K
  • SISlovenia1 in 21K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,839 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ye in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma).

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Ýê: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ýê
  1. Middle Englishye(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishġē“ye”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*jiʀ(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*jīz(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*yūs“ye”(measured from records)

From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs, *yū́ (“ye”), plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), Danish and Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”). See also you.

Sources 5

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ýê counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ýê is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,8391 in 34K16KYe128
ES Spain—9,3441 in 5.4K9.3K—2
PL Poland—5561 in 69K316——
SE Sweden—4521 in 23K452—4
AR Argentina—4001 in 114K400——
FI Finland—2591 in 22K259—4
MM Myanmar (Burma)#22≈220 est.≈1 in 264K—Ye110
NO Norway—1881 in 29K188—4
SI Slovenia—981 in 21K98——

9,839 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ýê is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

    Also written Ye, Yê, Yé, Ýè, Yè

  • Vietnamese given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Canada, China

    Also written Nghiệp, Nghiep, Ye, Yê, Nghiêp

  • Malay surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, China, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Ye, Ye', Yë, Yè, Ÿë

  • Bangla given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, India

    Also written Ye, জে, Je, যে, য়ে

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ýê under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ýê mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant… Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and A concise dictionary of first names and 3 other sources.
Is Ýê a male or female name?
Ýê is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ýê have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Ýê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ye.
Where is Ýê most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ýê is densest in Spain — about 1 in 5.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ýê?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,839 people named Ýê in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
How common is Ýê compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Ýê is the 22nd most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ýê” — the 22nd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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