Yeh (葉)
A Taiwanese surname.
葉 Yeh
- Zhuyin
- ㄧㄝˋ
- Pinyin
- yè
- Wade-Giles
- Yeh
- Further spellings of 葉
- Ye
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Ia̍p
- Hakka (Sixian)
- iab⁵
- Rank in Taiwan
- 22nd most common surname, roughly 1.18% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Leaf'; it also means 'era, period' and 'page'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Shen Zhuliang (沈諸梁), a Chu official of the Spring and Autumn period enfeoffed at Ye (葉) in present-day Henan and known as the Duke of Ye (葉公); his descendants took the name of the fief. Hall name (堂號): 南陽堂.
Saying it 我姓葉 — wǒ xìng yè (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄝˋ), "my family name is 葉"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).