Yeomans
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yeomans is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Christmas Island it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: son of Yeoman (i).
- AUAustralia1 in 32K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 32K
- CACanada1 in 56K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 248 ●
- 1 in 111K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
36K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
son of Yeoman (i).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,164 | 5.6K rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 123 |
| US United States | — | 2,990 | 24K rec. | 1 in 111K | 3K | Yeomans | 248 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,641 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 98 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,348 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 68 |
| MX Mexico | — | 841 | 683 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 47 |
| CL Chile | — | 635 | 67 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 34 |
| IT Italy | — | 276 | 288 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 137 | 130 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 31 |
| IE Ireland | — | 114 | 103 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | 110 | 100 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 17 |
| CN China | — | 89 | 96 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 3 |
| CX Christmas Island | #2 | 79 | 174 rec. | — | — | Yeomans | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English35K83%
- Spanish2.7K6%
- 8112%
- French4921%
- German3621%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 35,054 | 83% |
| Spanish | 2,685 | 6% |
| 811 | 2% | |
| French | 492 | 1% |
| German | 362 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Amelia Yeomansb. 1842CACanadian physician, suffragist (1842–1913)
- Lilian Barbara Yeomansb. 1861CA23 Jun 1861 - 9 Dec 1942
- Louisa Yeomans Kingb. 1863USAmerican gardener, author, and advocate of gardening and horticulture (1863-1948)
- Hec Yeomansb. 1895AUAustralian rules footballer (1895-1968)
- Harry Yeomansb. 1901GBEnglish footballer (1901-1965)
- Allan Yeomansb. 1931AUAuthor, cultural critic, and farmer
- Frank Yeomansb. 1949USAmerican psychiatrist (born 1949)
- Julia Mary Yeomansb. 1954GBBritish physicist
- Suicide of Kelly Yeomansb. 1984GBBritish student victim of bullying (1984–1997)
- Gael Yeomansb. 1988CLChilean politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,141 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,190 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #46,564 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #51,459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #244,192 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #246,159 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #17,456 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yeomans?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Yeomans (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yeomans have the most bearers?
- Yeomans is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled yeomans.
- How common is Yeomans compared with other names?
- In Christmas Island, Yeomans is the 2nd most common surname of 43 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Yeomans mean?
- Recorded meaning: son of Yeoman (i).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yeomans” — the 2nd most common surname in Christmas Island. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.