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There are approximately 3,026 people named Yeoman in the UK. That makes it the 3,257th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 48 are named Yeoman.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English
Occupational Name

Related and similar surnames

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The Yeoman surname in historical dictionaries

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857)

A man free-born, a freeholder; one next in order to the gentry.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

YEOMAN. A freeholder; the first degree of commoners. Some " define a Yeoman to be a free-born Englishman, wlio may lay out of his own free land in revenue to the sum of forty shillings." Bailey. Under the feudal system a knight's fee was twenty pounds, whence it would follow, that an ordinary yeoman's revenue was one-tenth part of that of the knight ; though some Yeomen, for example tiaose of Kent, were much richer. See Wliatman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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