How rare is the last name Yao?

10,882 people in the United States have the last name Yao, about 1 in 27,467. It ranks #3,235 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

YAO

#3,235

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,882
About
1 in 27,467
This common or more
53.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,882 people with the last name Yao, 90.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 3.6% as Black and 2.9% as White. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Yao

#3,233 Ponder · 10,885#3,234 Dorman · 10,884#3,236 Sifuentes · 10,880#3,237 Lindquist · 10,874

Spelled almost the same

4 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Yao, most common first.

#9,454 Yau · 3,293#18,405 Yaw · 1,487#24,492 Ya · 1,064#74,639 Yah · 279

Also a first name

As a first name, Yao ranks #5,143 of 53,615, with 3,398 people. See Yao as a first name

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