Yě / Yeh
The Ye surname is currently uncommon. It is distributed in Beijing, Yangquan in Shanxi, Wuhan in Hubei, and Chengdu in Sichuan, and is found among Han, Mongolian, Hui, Tu, and other ethnic groups. It is recorded in the Xu Tongzhi: Clan Records.
The Xu Tongzhi: Clan Records includes the Ye surname. The Kao Lue of Surnames, citing the Qixing Tong, records that at the beginning of the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, the Mongolian-surname bearer Ye Boxian served as an instructor.
The Ye surname is found in Chengde, Huanghua, and Sanhe in Hebei; Ning County in Gansu; Yangquan and Xiyang in Shanxi; Ordos in Inner Mongolia; Beijing; Tianjin; Chengdu in Sichuan; Wuhan and Zhongxiang in Hubei; Suining in Hunan; and Wujin and Suzhou in Jiangsu.
Ye Boxian was from Huaining, Anhui, in the Ming dynasty; he entered government through the early Hongwu tribute system and served as an instructor. Yelikewen Ma Yahu, Yelikewen Kuolijien, and Yelikewen Ma Shide were Yuan-era figures. Yezhi Achou was a yizi military-office commander during the Tianbao era of Northern Qi.
The surviving records present differing accounts of the Ye surname's origins: one summarizes it as originally a Mongolian surname, while another lists multiple origins. They do not establish a single definitive origin.
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