The surname Yoo was first found in on the Isle of Yell, in the Shetlands.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Yell, Yul, Yuel, Yule, Youll, Yuile, Yuill, Yulle and others.
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In the United States, the name Yoo is the 4,346th most popular surname with an estimated 7,461 people with that name. [1]
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Alexander Yuill who settled in New York in 1774; Alexander Yule, who settled in Nova Scotia in 1784; Peter Yule, who came to Nova Scotia in 1786; William Yule, who settled in Quebec in 1820.