[1] 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:[1] As a Korean surname, the Revised Romanization of Korean (RR) spelling Yeo (Korean: 여) could correspond to any of three modern surnames:[2] 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 the Chinese Singaporean population, bore the surname Yeo.
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.
[1] The 2010 United States Census found 2,805 people with the surname Yeo, making it the 11,272nd-most-common name in the country.
In the 2010 Census, about 55% of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and four-tenths as White.