Yeomans
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yeomans is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Christmas Island it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: son of Yeoman (i).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 32K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 288 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Christmas Island, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
son of Yeoman (i).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yeomans 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Yeomans | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,990 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Yeomans | 278 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 5.1K | Yeomans | 158 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Yeomans | 111 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Yeomans | 87 |
| LR Liberia | #387 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Yeomans | 1 |
| CX Christmas Island | #2 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Yeomans | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amelia Yeomansb. 1842CACanadian physician, suffragist (1842–1913)
- Lilian Barbara Yeomansb. 1861CA23 Jun 1861 - 9 Dec 1942
- Louisa Yeomans Kingb. 1863USAmerican gardener, author, and advocate of gardening and horticulture (1863-1948)
- Hec Yeomansb. 1895AUAustralian rules footballer (1895-1968)
- Harry Yeomansb. 1901GBEnglish footballer (1901-1965)
- Allan Yeomansb. 1931AUAuthor, cultural critic, and farmer
- Frank Yeomansb. 1949USAmerican psychiatrist (born 1949)
- Julia Mary Yeomansb. 1954GBBritish physicist
- Suicide of Kelly Yeomansb. 1984GBBritish student victim of bullying (1984–1997)
- Gael Yeomansb. 1988CLChilean politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5.1K | #1,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,141 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yeomans mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Yeoman (i). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Yeomans have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Yeomans in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yeomans.
- How common is the name Yeomans?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,990 people named Yeomans in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Yeomans compared with other names?
- In Christmas Island, Yeomans is the 2nd most common surname of 49 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yeomansThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yeomans” — the 2nd most common surname in Christmas Island. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.