Yëë

surname · Latin script

Yëë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Yee, from Mandarin 余 (yú), likely also influenced by Hokkien 余 (î).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 76K
  • GYGuyana1 in 125K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

20,591 people, 2010

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yee in US United States.

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 Yëë: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Yëë
  1. EnglishYee(measured from records)
  2. Mandarin余yú(measured from records)

From English Yee, from Mandarin 余 (yú), likely also influenced by Hokkien 余 (î).

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yëë 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 Yëë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States20,5911 in 16K21KYee52
BR Brazil971 in 2.2M97——
CR Costa Rica671 in 76K67——
NL Netherlands401 in 432K617—1
FI Finland241 in 232K200—2
NO Norway201 in 273K40——
GY Guyana61 in 125K6——

20,591 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Yëë is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Canada, Philippines

    Languages: English, Chinese, German

    Also written Yee, Yéè, Yeë, Yeè, Ÿèę

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Yëë 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 Yëë mean, and where does it come from?
From English Yee, from Mandarin 余 (yú), likely also influenced by Hokkien 余 (î). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Yëë have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Yëë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yee.
Where is Yëë most common?
Yëë is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Yëë?
In the United States, the national register counted 20,591 people named Yëë in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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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, “Yëë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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