Yeats real name is Noah Olivier Smith. He was born on February 26, 2000, in Irvine, California, to a Mexican father and Romanian mother. Yeat has two brothers, Luca and Ethan. He spent his early childhood in Fullerton, California, before moving to Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego. Yeat began his music career in 2015 under the name Lil Yeat, but he later changed it to Yeat.