Yates

Yates is the 550th most common surname in the United States, shared by 60,581 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,934.

By the numbers

People: 60,581
Rank: 550th
How common: 1 in 4,934
Per 100,000: 20.3

Where the name comes from

From the Old English surname, from yate, obsolete form of gate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Yates described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Yates

David Yates (born 1963)English filmmaker
Simon Yates (born 1992)British road and track racing cyclist
Peter Yates (1929–2011)British film director and producer
Adam Yates (born 1992)British racing cyclist (borm 1992)
Richard Yates (1926–1992)American novelist, short story writer
Frances Yates (1899–1981)English historian of the Renaissance
Ryan Yates (born 1997)English professional footballer
Sally Yates (born 1960)American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

People named Yates with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Yates has been given to 517 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.