Ÿee
surname · Latin script
Ÿee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 60th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From English Yee, from Mandarin 余 (yú), likely also influenced by Hokkien 余 (î).
- 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)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
20,591 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yee 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)
- EnglishYee(measured from records)
- 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)
Ÿee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,591 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Yee | 87 |
| BR Brazil | — | 97 | 1 in 2.2M | 97 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 67 | 1 in 76K | 67 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 40 | 1 in 432K | 617 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 24 | 1 in 232K | 200 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 40 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #60 | — | — | — | Yee | 68 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ÿee 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 Ÿee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Ÿee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yee.
- Where is Ÿee most common?
- Ÿee is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ÿee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,591 people named Ÿee in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Ÿee compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Ÿee is the 60th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ÿee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%BFeeThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ÿee” — the 60th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.