Yin

9,738 people in the United States were counted with the surname Yin in the 2020 census, making it the 3,572nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,738
Rank: 3,572nd
How common: 1 in 30,700
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

From the romanization of various Chinese characters.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Yin

Yi Yin (1647 BC–1548 BC)Chinese chancellor
Yin Lihua (5–64)Han dynasty empress
Zhang Li Yin (born 1989)Chinese singer
Yin Jian (born 1978)Chinese windsurfer
Liu Yin (born 1981)Chinese female curler
Yip Pui Yin (born 1987)Hong Kong badminton player
Yin Li (born 1962)Chinese politician
Yin Chengxin (born 1995)Chinese synchronized swimmer

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

Surnames like Yin

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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.