Ye

At the 2020 census, 15,576 Americans bore the surname Ye — 2,281st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,200.

By the numbers

People: 15,576
Rank: 2,281st
How common: 1 in 19,200
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Ye

Ye Jianying (1897–1986)former Head of State of the People's Republic of China
Ye Shiwen (born 1996)Chinese swimmer
Fan Ye (398–445)5th century Chinese historian
Ye Qiaobo (born 1964)Chinese speed skater
Ye Chong (born 1969)Chinese fencer
Lou Ye (born 1965)Chinese film director
Ye Guangfu (born 1980)Chinese astronaut
Ye Shengtao (1894–1988)Chinese writer

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

Surnames like Ye

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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.