The Yanes Family Name

If your family name is Yanes, its origin lies with Yáñez, a long-established Spanish surname. The family name meaning is “Son of Juan”, the same as for Yáñez.

Spelling and variants

Records show Yanes as one of the forms Yáñez took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Yanes surname had 5,140 bearers. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 88% of the total. Spain's INE counts 4,111 residents with Yanes as first surname and 4,015 with it as second.

Yanes coat of arms

Arms linked to Yáñez and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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