Yates Surname
Approximately 137,327 people bear this surname
Yates Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the gate.' Middle English gate, yate. Monosyllabic local surnames frequently take a final 's', perhaps the patronymic, as in Williams, Jennings, &c.; compare Stubbs, Styles, Stones, Bridges, Brooks.
Read More About This SurnameYates Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 81,916 | 1:4,425 | 491 |
| England | 33,224 | 1:1,677 | 191 |
| Australia | 9,842 | 1:2,743 | 374 |
| Canada | 3,890 | 1:9,472 | 1,421 |
| New Zealand | 1,818 | 1:2,491 | 349 |
| Scotland | 1,075 | 1:4,980 | 839 |
| Wales | 1,000 | 1:3,095 | 334 |
| South Africa | 943 | 1:57,452 | 7,286 |
| Liberia | 528 | 1:8,349 | 958 |
| France | 321 | 1:206,924 | 32,150 |
| Jamaica | 286 | 1:10,035 | 1,076 |
| Ireland | 194 | 1:24,273 | 2,334 |
| Northern Ireland | 191 | 1:9,660 | 1,547 |
| Spain | 164 | 1:285,073 | 17,466 |
| Cayman Islands | 152 | 1:420 | 67 |
| Thailand | 149 | 1:474,083 | 83,094 |
| Chile | 109 | 1:161,619 | 5,406 |
| Brazil | 105 | 1:2,038,803 | 64,511 |
| Germany | 101 | 1:797,084 | 58,657 |
| Singapore | 86 | 1:64,043 | 2,603 |
| Colombia | 72 | 1:663,529 | 7,854 |
| Dominican Republic | 69 | 1:151,202 | 5,897 |
| Mexico | 65 | 1:1,909,634 | 18,382 |
| Jersey | 61 | 1:1,626 | 238 |
| India | 59 | 1:13,001,108 | 227,026 |
| Netherlands | 56 | 1:301,557 | 35,980 |
| Denmark | 48 | 1:117,598 | 10,848 |
| Isle of Man | 46 | 1:1,866 | 352 |
| Italy | 40 | 1:1,528,917 | 81,534 |
| United Arab Emirates | 40 | 1:229,057 | 15,464 |
| Zimbabwe | 40 | 1:385,956 | 35,257 |
| Sweden | 36 | 1:273,521 | 18,976 |
| Switzerland | 34 | 1:241,556 | 20,206 |
| Iraq | 31 | 1:1,129,731 | 13,630 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 30 | 1:45,466 | 4,095 |
| Guernsey | 29 | 1:2,222 | 539 |
| Honduras | 28 | 1:314,873 | 2,759 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Nigeria | 26 | 1:6,813,183 | 158,601 |
| Estonia | 23 | 1:57,470 | 10,794 |
| Philippines | 23 | 1:4,401,662 | 162,661 |
| Solomon Islands | 23 | 1:25,219 | 4,941 |
| Qatar | 22 | 1:107,182 | 11,536 |
| Hong Kong | 19 | 1:386,078 | 3,192 |
| Japan | 16 | 1:7,990,268 | 43,922 |
| Czechia | 15 | 1:708,898 | 64,682 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Belgium | 13 | 1:884,357 | 69,774 |
| China | 12 | 1:113,943,464 | 5,994 |
| Greece | 12 | 1:923,316 | 84,525 |
| Norway | 12 | 1:428,524 | 37,411 |
| Panama | 11 | 1:355,660 | 7,645 |
| Belize | 9 | 1:39,497 | 2,328 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 1:1,786,963 | 6,100 |
| Iceland | 9 | 1:42,232 | 2,922 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| South Korea | 8 | 1:6,405,032 | 1,091 |
| Bermuda | 7 | 1:9,326 | 1,286 |
| Ecuador | 5 | 1:3,181,169 | 27,617 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Taiwan | 5 | 1:4,688,949 | 27,695 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Suriname | 4 | 1:138,154 | 7,029 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| Vanuatu | 4 | 1:65,819 | 1,151 |
| Cyprus | 3 | 1:294,959 | 8,690 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 1:16,076,592 | 43,178 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Azerbaijan | 2 | 1:4,824,561 | 42,415 |
| Barbados | 2 | 1:143,724 | 1,981 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Egypt | 2 | 1:45,967,877 | 132,655 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Palau | 1 | 1:21,643 | 223 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Saint Martin | 1 | 1:35,156 | 229 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1:34,329 | 862 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 138 | 1:32,100 | 3,168 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20,145 | 1:1,210 | 136 |
| Scotland | 344 | 1:10,881 | 1,359 |
| Wales | 160 | 1:9,803 | 596 |
| Jersey | 6 | 1:8,647 | 1,503 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:54,269 | 2,077 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12,485 | 1:4,022 | 497 |
Yates (768) may also be a first name.
Yates Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the gate.' Middle English gate, yate. Monosyllabic local surnames frequently take a final 's', perhaps the patronymic, as in Williams, Jennings, &c.; compare Stubbs, Styles, Stones, Bridges, Brooks. Hence Yates for Yate. 'Gate (oryate), porta Joris': Promptorium Parvulorum Other forms of this surname are Yeatts, Yeates, and Yeats, which see. Evidently the two following names were closely related:
1606. Laurence Yate, of Nether Darwen: Wills at Chester.
1608. Laurence Yates, of Blackburn: ibid.
No doubt the family were known indifferently as Yate or Yates.
William atte Yete, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.
Batin atte Yete, Somerset, 1 Edward III: ibid.
Richard atte Yate, Somerset, 1 Edward III: ibid.
Johannes atte Yate, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire p. '34.
Of local origin from one or more small places of the name meaning, "at the gate," from Old English geat, ME. yate. "A final s is not uncommon in surnames derived from topographical features, and may be either the plural formation or genitive case ending, but it is not possible to say which from inspection," or, again, it may be "a meaningless excrescence, the addition of a terminal sibilant being not uncommon with uncultured people" (Ewen, p. 251). Adam del Yate was juror on an inquisition held at Lochmaben in 1347 (Bain, III, 1499), John Yet held a land in Arbroath in 1425 (RAA., II, 93), Johannes ȝett, capellanus de Vasthall, died 1479 (REA., I, p. 218), William Yet appears as church elder for Fortrie in 1607 (Mair, p. 61), and Agnas Yatts is recorded in the parish of Falkirk in 1681 (Torphichen). An ancient family in Teviotdale were the Yetts of Yetton. John Yetts, wright in Edinburgh, 1722 (Guildry, p. 126). Yeatt 1688.
Pl., and genit., of Yate, q.v.
I here and see bothe How a spirit speketh to helle And biddeth unspere [undo] the yates,— Piers Plowman, 12598-600.
The famous family of Yeats, which had formerly been in Dublin, settled in Co. Sligo at the end of the seventeenth century. There are a number of families of Yates and Yeates elsewhere unconnected with them. IF 304
“Gate” or “Gate-keeper” in Old English.
(English) One who lived in, or near, the gate or gap in a chain of hills.
1. In some dialects, Y and G are convertible letters, and a gate is called a yate or yat: —
An old word for Gate. The same as Gates.
(English), Yetts (Scotch), Gates. (variant: v. d. Poort and Amthor.)
From the Old Norse, Geitr (?); from the German, Jaty, Jaite; from the French, Jette; a personal name.$
Yates Demographics
Yates Religious Adherence
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Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Yates Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yates Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yates (Arabic: ياتس, Russian: Ятес) occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Yates.
How Common Is The Last Name Yates? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,091st most numerous surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 53,067 people. The last name Yates is predominantly found in The Americas, where 52 percent of Yates reside; 51 percent reside in North America and 51 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Yates is also the 296,201st most frequently held forename throughout the world It is held by 768 people.
This last name is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 81,916 people, or 1 in 4,425. In The United States Yates is most numerous in: Texas, where 8 percent reside, California, where 7 percent reside and Florida, where 6 percent reside. Beside The United States this last name occurs in 112 countries. It is also found in England, where 24 percent reside and Australia, where 7 percent reside.
Yates Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Yates has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Yates last name rose 656 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 165 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 313 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 625 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it rose 141 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Yates Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is predominantly Catholic (50%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Yates surname are 14.69% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 61.46% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Yates earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 24.65% less than the national average, earning 260,782 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 61.51% more than the national average, earning R 383,808 per year; in Colombia they earn 40.69% more than the national average, earning $31,941,200 COP per year; in United States they earn 4.44% less than the national average, earning $41,232 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.75% more than the national average, earning $53,038 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yates Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yates in the Russian language | ||
| Ятес | ates | - |
| Yates in the Arabic language | ||
| ياتس | yats | - |
| ياتيس | yatys | - |
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