Yee

At the 2020 census, 19,997 Americans bore the surname Yee — 1,751st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 19,997
Rank: 1,751st
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

or zhx-tai 余 or nan-hbl 余 or yue 爾.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 81.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Yee

Alex Yee (born 1998)British triathlete
Derek Yee (born 1957)Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor
Jackson Yee (born 2000)Chinese singer and actor
Ng On Yee (born 1990)snooker player from Hong Kong
Leong Mun Yee (born 1984)Malaysian diver
Ng Yan Yee (born 1993)Malaysian diver

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

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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.