Yi (surname 易)

Yi
Yi surname in regular script
Pronunciation(Pinyin)
E̍k, Ī (Pe̍h-ōe-jī)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)Yi, Yih (Mandarin)
Yick or Yik (Cantonese)
Ek, Yee (Hokkien)

Yi (易), also romanized as Yee, Yick, Yik, Jek is a Chinese surname. A 2013 study found that it was the 114th most-common name, shared by 1.75 million people, or 0.130% of the population, with the largest province being Hunan.