Yeung
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Cantonese (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/jœŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Yeung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 96(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 8.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K
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.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 96 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Yeung
- English:/jœŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Cantonese.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Yeung is found
(measured from records)Yeung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #36 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 96 | — | Yeung | 144 |
| US United States | — | 7,782 | 1 in 43K | 8.6K | Yeung | 363 |
| CA Canada | #796 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Yeung | 222 |
| AU Australia | #926 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Yeung | 158 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 2.1K | Yeung | 166 |
| NZ New Zealand | #579 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Yeung | 57 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Yeung is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, a different form of Yang (ii).
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chen Ning Yangb. 1922CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist (1922–2025)
- Michelle Yeohb. 1962MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian actress (born 1962)
- Jerry Yangb. 1968USnot in their usual namefounder of Yahoo!
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yeung mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Cantonese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yeung?
- In English /jœŋ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Yeung?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Yeung in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yeung. After it come United States, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yeung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,782 people named Yeung in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Yeung compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yeung is the 36th most common surname of 8,142 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/yeungThe 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, “Yeung” — the 36th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.