YeoYeo Yeo 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 , via south-western Middle English , , or . Variant spellings include Yoe and Youe. 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: As a Korean surname, the Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) spelling Yeo () could correspond to  any of three modern surnames: Additionally, two historical Korean surnames are also spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization: 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. 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 , 5,741 households and 18,146 people for , and 119 people and 358 households for . 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. 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. It was the 871st-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian. People. Chinese surnames. Chinese surnames () or (): Korean surnames. Korean surnames (): Other. People with other surnames spelled Yeo, or people for whom the Chinese characters of their names are not available: Yeo 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 , via