Yim

At the 2020 census, 6,280 Americans bore the surname Yim — 5,359th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,280
Rank: 5,359th
How common: 1 in 47,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

or yue 閻.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
White, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Yim

Yim Si-wan (born 1988)South Korean singer and actor
Mia Yim (born 1989)American professional wrestler

People named Yim 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.