Ye (surname)

"Yeh" redirects here. For other uses, see Yeh (disambiguation).
Ye
PronunciationYè, Yeh (Mandarin)

Yip, Ip (Cantonese)

Yap (Hakka, Hokkien)
LanguageChinese, Vietnamese
Origin
LanguageOld Chinese
Word/nameCity of Ye, State of Chu
MeaningLeaf

Ye (traditional Chinese: 葉; simplified Chinese: 叶; pinyin: Yè) is a Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames, and is the 43rd most common surname in China, with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019.

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