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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Devon and Somerset) : habitational name from any of several minor places in Somerset and Devon named with southwestern Middle English ya or yo (Old English ēa ‘stream’, ‘river’, the same word as found in Nye, Rye, and Tye).
  • Korean : variant of Yoh.

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