Yeow Surname
Approximately 8,335 people bear this surname
Yeow Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 5,681 | 1:5,192 | 715 |
| Singapore | 1,271 | 1:4,333 | 312 |
| Thailand | 538 | 1:131,298 | 20,061 |
| United States | 178 | 1:2,036,286 | 130,241 |
| Australia | 171 | 1:157,870 | 16,525 |
| England | 129 | 1:431,923 | 29,000 |
| Hong Kong | 70 | 1:104,793 | 1,905 |
| Canada | 58 | 1:635,269 | 52,014 |
| Qatar | 47 | 1:50,170 | 4,949 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Brunei | 37 | 1:11,317 | 1,397 |
| New Zealand | 26 | 1:174,166 | 18,836 |
| China | 19 | 1:71,964,293 | 3,948 |
| Sweden | 13 | 1:757,443 | 56,422 |
| Northern Ireland | 10 | 1:184,504 | 9,341 |
| Philippines | 9 | 1:11,248,691 | 221,039 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Yeow (5,052) may also be a first name.
Yeow Demographics
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Yeow Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yeow Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yeow is held by more people in Malaysia than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yeow? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yeow is the 60,453rd most prevalent family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 874,331 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 93 percent of Yeow reside; 91 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 69 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Yeow is also the 95,607th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 5,052 people.
The surname Yeow is most frequently used in Malaysia, where it is held by 5,681 people, or 1 in 5,192. In Malaysia it is primarily found in: Selangor, where 37 percent are found, Johor, where 13 percent are found and Penang, where 10 percent are found. Besides Malaysia this last name occurs in 37 countries. It also occurs in Singapore, where 15 percent are found and Thailand, where 6 percent are found.
Yeow Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Yeow has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Yeow last name grew 8,900 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Yeow Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Yeow last name are 9.93% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 63.16% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Yeow earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 4.25% more than the national average, earning $44,984 USD per year and in Canada they earn 24.25% more than the national average, earning $61,732 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yeow
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