Yoe (surname)

Yoe is an English surname. It is a variant spelling of Yeo, meaning "river". The word comes from Old English ea, via south-western Middle English ya, yo, or yeo. According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 16 people on the island of Great Britain and none on the island of Ireland with the surname Yoe as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 55 people with the surname in Great Britain, primarily in Devon.^[1] In the United States, the 2010 Census found 509 people with the surname Yoe, making it the 42,579th-most-common name in the country.^[2]

Yoe

Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Middle English
Meaning	River
Other names
Variant form(s)	Yeo

Notable people with the surname include:

• A. C. De Yoe, American U.S. Army service member and politician
• Craig Yoe (born 1951), American author

See also

• Shwe Yoe (1890-1945), Burmese actor (Burmese names do not have surnames)

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 2980, 2982. ISBN 9780192527479.
2. "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.