Yun

Yun is the 3,640th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,513 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,513
Rank: 3,640th
How common: 1 in 31,400
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From various romanizations of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 妘.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Yun

Chen Yun (1905–1995)Elder of the Chinese Communist Party
Zhao Yun (died 229)Chinese military general
Cai Yun (born 1980)Chinese badminton player
Hsing Yun (1927–2023)Taiwanese Buddhist monk
James Yun (born 1981)American professional wrestler
Ji Yun (1724–1805)Chinese Qing dynasty scholar
Yun Shouping (1633–1690)Chinese painter
Lou Yun (born 1964)Chinese gymnast

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

Surnames like Yun

Yung

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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.