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Ye is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 葉 in traditional characters or 叶 in simplified ones. It was listed 257th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames and is the 43rd-most-common surname in China.
Ye is also romanized Yeh in Wade-Giles and Yee or Ee idiosyncratically; Yip, Ip, and Jip in Cantonese; Iap, Yap, and Yeap in Hakka and Minnan; and Yeh or Diệp in Vietnamese.
In Ancient Chinese, Ye (葉) was probably pronounced Sjep (IPA: [ɕiɛp]). As late as the 11th-century Guangyun Dictionary, the character was a homophone for others pronounced sip in modern Cantonese and shè in modern Mandarin.
Note that "Yee" and "Ee" are normally employed for romanizing the Cantonese pronunciation of the unrelated Chinese surname 余 (Yu).
Ye was the 43rd-most-common surname in mainland China in 2007 and the 22nd-most-common surname on Taiwan in 2005.
Although Chinese make up the largest part of America's Asian and Pacific Islander population, none of the romanizations of 葉 or 叶 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the AD 2000 US census.
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