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Chinese surname

Surname Yap

葉

Yap is the Hokkien and Hakka spelling of the Chinese surname 葉, meaning leaf.

Characters for the surname Yap

The spelling Yap is common in Hokkien and Hakka romanization.

  • 葉

    leaf; surname

    Hokkien ia̍p / Hakka ya̍p / Mandarin yè

    attested

  • 叶

    leaf; surname (simplified form)

    Hokkien ia̍p / Hakka ya̍p / Mandarin yè (simplified form of 葉)

    attested

葉 all spellings of yè

Possible characters for Yap

Yap 葉 yè · Hokkien · Hakka
In our records the spelling Yap stands for 葉.
CharacterMandarin reading · romanization of the spelling
葉yè · Hokkien · Hakka

Other spellings of the same character

About the surname Yap

Yap is a spelling of the surname 葉 (simplified 叶), meaning leaf. It comes from the Hokkien reading ia̍p and the Hakka reading ya̍p. In Cantonese (jip6) it is written Yip, and in Mandarin Ye. According to JPN, the surname peaked in the 1940s with 791 baby boys.

Yap in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 791 · 4.6%
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Yap as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. In these records the name JPN publishes is often the surname. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 葉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 葉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. MDBG: 叶 · mdbg.net · meaning

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