Yip

Yip is the 5,248th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,416 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,416
Rank: 5,248th
How common: 1 in 46,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese

Borrowed from yue 葉.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Yip

Brandon Yip (born 1985)Canadian ice hockey player
Carissa Yip (born 2003)American chess player
Cecilia Yip (born 1963)Hong Kong actress
Wilson Yip (born 1963)Hong Kong filmmaker
Amy Yip (born 1966)Hong Kong actress
Françoise Yip (born 1972)Canadian actress
Yip Pui Yin (born 1987)Hong Kong badminton player
Frances Yip (born 1947)Hong Kong female singer

People named Yip 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.