Distribution
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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