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叶 Ye — a top-100 surname
87.1 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Ye |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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| Commonness | a top-100 surname |
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| Type | single-character |
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| Theme | Nature |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'leaf', from the ancient state of Ye in today's Henan.
Classical source：《诗经·周南·桃夭》：其叶蓁蓁
Theme basis：叶 = leaf
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China72
Common enough that most Chinese speakers recognise it (roughly the top 100).
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Ye Shengtao — Writer and educator (1894–1988), pioneer of modern Chinese children's literature.
- Ye Ting — Renowned military commander of the Chinese revolution, first commander of the New Fourth Army, and leader of the Nanchang Uprising.
- Ye Jianying — One of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China, served as Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
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