Yeo

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Yeo is a Chinese, English, and Korean surname.

Origins

As an English surname, Yeo is a toponymic surname meaning "river", either for people who lived near one of the Rivers Yeo, or any river in general. The word comes from Old English Template:Wikt-lang, via south-western Middle English Template:Wikt-lang, Template:Wikt-lang, or Template:Wikt-lang. Variant spellings include Yoe and Youe.[1]

As a Chinese surname, Yeo is a spelling of the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese of a number of distinct surnames, listed below by their pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese:[1]

As a Korean surname, the Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) spelling Yeo (Korean: Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) could correspond to any of three modern surnames:[2]

  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang".; lit. the Yeo [character] which means 'rule'Template:Category handler). The largest lineage with this surname is the Hamyang Yeo clan.
  • Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang".; lit. "the Yeo which means 'I'"Template:Category handler). The largest lineage with this surname is the Uiryeong Yeo clan.
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Additionally, two historical Korean surnames are also spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization:

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Statistics

Yeo was the 13th-most common Chinese surname in Singapore as of 1997 (ranked by English spelling, rather than by Chinese characters). Roughly 36,600 people, or 1.5% of the Chinese Singaporean population, bore the surname Yeo.[3]

The 2000 South Korean census found 23,358 households and 65,196 people with the surnames spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization, divided among 17,498 households and 56,692 people for Script error: No such module "Lang"., 5,741 households and 18,146 people for Script error: No such module "Lang"., and 119 people and 358 households for Script error: No such module "Lang"..[2]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 2,529 people on the island of Great Britain and 20 on the island of Ireland with the surname Yeo as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 1,565 people with the surname in Great Britain, mainly in Devon, while in mid-19th-century Ireland it was found primarily in Dublin and Kilkenny.[1]

The 2010 United States Census found 2,805 people with the surname Yeo, making it the 11,272nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,194 (12,858th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 Census, about 55% of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and four-tenths as White.[4] It was the 871st-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.[5]

People

Chinese surnames

Chinese surnames Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Lang-zh) or Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Lang-zh):

  • Alvin Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 1962–2022), Singaporean lawyer
  • Ben Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1978), Singaporean actor
  • Yeo Bee Yin (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1983), Malaysian politician
  • Yeo Cheow Tong (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1947), Singaporean politician
  • Danny Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Template:Fl.), Singaporean television host
  • Edmund Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1984), Malaysian filmmaker
  • George Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1954), Singaporean former politician and Air Force brigadier-general
  • Gwendoline Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1977), Singaporean-born American actress and niece of George Yeo
  • Yeo Jia Min (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1999), Singaporean badminton player
  • Jamie Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1977), Singaporean media personality
  • Jerry Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1986), Singaporean actor
  • Joscelin Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1979), Singaporean swimmer
  • Yeo Keng Lian (Script error: No such module "Lang".; died 1960), Chinese-born Singaporean founder of Yeo Hiap Seng
  • K. K. Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1952), Malaysian-born American bible scholar
  • Kuei Pin Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Template:Fl.), Indonesian classical pianist
  • Yeo Ning Hong (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Template:Fl.), Singaporean politician
  • Philip Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang"., born 1946), Singaporean bureaucrat
  • Richard Yeo (scientist) (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Template:Fl.), Chinese American scientist best known for his research on disposable diapers
  • Vivien Yeo (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1984), Malaysian actress
  • Yeo Yann Yann (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1977), Malaysian actress

Korean surnames

Korean surnames (Korean: Script error: No such module "Lang".; Hanja: Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler):

Other

People with other surnames spelled Yeo, or people for whom the Chinese characters of their names are not available:

See also

References

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