Yen

5,259 people in the United States were counted with the surname Yen in the 2020 census, making it the 6,238th most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,259
Rank: 6,238th
How common: 1 in 56,800
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 87.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
White, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Yen

Donnie Yen (born 1963)Hong Kong actor, film director and martial artist
Cheng Yen (born 1937)Taiwanese Buddhist nun
Ali Sami Yen (1886–1951)Turkish association football player and manager

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

Also a first name

Yen has been given to 611 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1982. 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.