Yeo is a Chinese, English, and Korean surname.
21-795: (Redirected from River Yeo ) Yeo is a surname. Yeo or YEO may also refer to: Rivers [ edit ] Barnstaple Yeo , a tributary of the River Taw in Devon, UK Cheddar Yeo , a tributary of the River Axe in Somerset, UK Congresbury Yeo , a tributary of the Severn Estuary in Somerset, UK Land Yeo , a tributary of the Bristol Channel in Somerset, UK Lapford Yeo ,
42-622: A Korean surname , the Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) spelling Yeo ( Korean : 여 ) could correspond to any of three modern surnames: Additionally, two historical Korean surnames are also spelled Yeo in Revised Romanization: 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
63-539: A dairy business based in Somerset, UK " Yeo Valley Rap ", a song from an advertisement by Yeo Valley Organic that entered the UK music charts in 2010 Transport [ edit ] Yeo (locomotive) , a British narrow gauge railway locomotive built in 1897 Yeo Mill railway station , a former railway station in Devon, UK YEO, the IATA code for RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) , a Royal Navy airfield in Somerset, UK YEO,
84-759: A last name. The given names after the first are often referred to as middle names . Few given names used in England have English derivations. Many names are of Hebrew ( Daniel , David , Elizabeth , Susan ) or Greek ( Nicholas , Dorothy , George , and Helen ) origin. Some are Germanic names , sometimes adopted via the transmission of French ( Robert , Richard , Gertrude , Charlotte ) or originate from idoeuropean ( Adrian , Amelia , Patrick ) or Celtic. A small fraction of given names has an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names ), such as Alfred , Ashley , Edgar , Edmund , Edward , Edwin , Harold and Oswald . A distinctive feature of Anglophone names
105-649: A legal name, though most people use their birth name (as registered on the Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths , regulated by the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 , which allows only characters that are used in English or Welsh), often using a spouse's surname (proved with a marriage certificate), or (if an adult) a name formally declared by deed poll . No regulations include any specific provisions regarding what names are acceptable. Nonetheless,
126-591: A tributary of the River Taw in Devon, UK Lox Yeo , a tributary of the River Axe in Somerset, UK Mark Yeo , a tributary of the River Axe in Somerset, UK River Yeo, Molland , a tributary to the River Mole in Devon, UK River Yeo (South Somerset) , a river in Somerset, UK, and which joins the River Parrett near Langport River Yeo (tributary of the Creedy) in Devon, UK River Yeo (tributary of
147-605: 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 ea , via south-western Middle English ya , yo , or yeo . 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
168-503: Is a result of a combination of greater individualism in the choice of names, and the increasing ethnic heterogeneity of the UK population, which led to a wider range of frequent given names from non-European traditions. Oliver and Olivia were the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2018. According to Christopher Daniell, in 1140 marked what might be the first recorded use of a modern surname, inherited by multiple generations. These were not always regularly formed: for example,
189-426: Is the surnames of important families used as given names, originally to indicate political support or patronage. Many examples have now become normal names chosen because parents like them, and any political sense lost. Most are male names like Cecil, Gerald , Howard, Percy, Montague, Stanley or Gordon, though some of those some have female versions like Cecilia or Geraldine. Other languages have few equivalents, although
210-499: 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. Chinese surnames Yáng (traditional Chinese: 楊 ; simplified Chinese: 杨 ) or Yáo (Chinese: 姚 ): Korean surnames (Korean: 여 ; Hanja: 呂, 余, 汝, 麗, or 餘 ): People with other surnames spelled Yeo, or people for whom
231-587: 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 Beopchik Yeo , 5,741 households and 18,146 people for Na Yeo , and 119 people and 358 households for Neo Yeo . According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks , there were 2,529 people on
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#1732772949460252-534: The General Register Office and various organizations that help with creating and enrolling deed polls will reject anything that is unreasonable (racist, offensive, fraudulent, implying a title of nobility not held, unpronounceable, not in the Latin script, etc.). Double-barrelled names may be formed for a variety of reasons, including combining of spouses' surnames upon marriage or, more commonly in
273-542: The Chinese characters of their names are not available: English surname English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England . In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world , a complete name usually consists of one or more given names , commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineal , rarely matrilineal ) family name or surname , also referred to as
294-479: The National Rail code for Yeoford railway station in Devon, UK See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Yeo All pages with titles beginning with Yeo Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yeo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
315-467: The Torridge) in Devon, UK Places [ edit ] Yeo Island , British Columbia, Canada Yeo Lake , Western Australia, Australia Yeo Yeo , New South Wales, Australia Companies and organisations [ edit ] Yeo Hiap Seng , an investment holding company commonly known as Yeo's YEO, the original name for the non-profit Entrepreneurs' Organization Yeo Valley Organic ,
336-514: The boys born in London in the year 1510, 24.4% were named John , 13.3% were named Thomas and 11.7% were named William. A trend towards more diversity in given names began in the mid-19th century, and by 1900, only 22.9% of the newborn boys, and 16.2% of the newborn girls in the UK shared the top three given names for each gender. The trend continued during the 20th century, and by 1994, these figures had fallen to 11% and 8.6%, respectively. This trend
357-406: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yeo_(disambiguation)&oldid=1083662867#Rivers " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yeo As an English surname , Yeo
378-635: 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
399-433: The past, adding another family's surname as a condition of inheritance. Compound surnames in English feature two or more words, often joined by a hyphen or hyphens: for example, Henry Hepburne-Scott . A few families have three or four words making up their surname, such as Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton and Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry . However, it
420-477: The saint's surname Xavier is often used by Roman Catholics. During the majority of the 19th century, the most popular given names were Mary for girls and either John or William for boys. Throughout the Early Modern period, the diversity of given names was comparatively small; the three most frequent male given names accounted for close to 50% of the male population throughout this period. For example, of
441-460: The sons of a certain French named Robert used a modern inheritable surname, FitzGerald , in honour of an earlier relative, named Gerald . While it is normal for a child to be given one of their parents' surnames, traditionally the father's (or increasingly some combination of the two), there is nothing in UK law that explicitly requires this. Under English common law, a person may use any name as
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