Yap Surname Origin & Formation

Origin and formation

Yap comes from the Hokkien surname Ia̍p (葉 or 叶), with Ip as a related written form. The Chinese character is preserved in both traditional and simplified shapes, while Yap represents its Hokkien surname reading.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ˈjap/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Cebuano: /ˈjap/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Yap has 32 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts