Yiu
given name · Chinese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yiu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Chinese and English, written in the Latin script.
- HKHong Kong1 in 416◐
- TWTaiwan1 in 25K
- AUAustralia1 in 47K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈695 ●
- Sources
- 220 ●
- 1 in 166K ◐
across 6 countries
49K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #17 | 8,947 | 9.3K rec. | — | — | Yiu | 105 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 4,004 | 77 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,489 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Yiu | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,721 | 1.8K rec. | — | listed | Yiu | 83 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 860 | 788 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 25 |
| CN China | — | 565 | 519 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 63 |
| US United States | — | 541 | 29K rec. | 1 in 615K | 1.2K | Yiu | 220 |
| CA Canada | — | 411 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Yiu | 92 |
| SG Singapore | — | 147 | 248 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | 147 | 259 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 110 | 128 rec. | — | — | Yiu | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 104 | 429 rec. | 1 in 166K | 104 | Yiu | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Chinese21K47%
- English16K35%
- Spanish1.3K3%
- 9792%
- Malay9092%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 21,358 | 47% |
| English | 15,971 | 35% |
| Spanish | 1,311 | 3% |
| 979 | 2% | |
| Malay | 909 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yiu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Lope.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rup, alive, living in person
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pap, child (of parents)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 10 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 1999–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Y. T. Wub. 1893CNnot in their usual nameChinese christian leader (1893-1979)
- Wang Yaonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 284129
- Xue Yaonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 362369
- Wang Yaonot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 45832
- Wang Yaonot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 101005
- Wang Yaonot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 123612
- Jong-Eao John LeeUSnot in their usual namePh.D. The Ohio State University 1986
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 49 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yiu?
- We estimate roughly 695 people bear Yiu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yiu have the most bearers?
- Yiu is most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is most often spelled yiu.
- How common is Yiu compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yiu is the 17th most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
- Is Yiu a male or female name?
- Yiu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yiu” — the 17th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.