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The 2010 United States census found 10,862 people with the surname Eng, making it the 3,352nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 10,102 (3,246th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, roughly three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian and 14% as non-Hispanic white. [12]
The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases, the surname is an Americanization of a similar-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname. [1] In England and Scotland, the name is a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket. [1] This name is derived from the Middle English schage, shage, schawe, and shawe, from the Old ...
Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, [1] while the year 2000 United States census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogether [2] and that the number of surnames held by 100 or more Americans (per name) was just over 150,000.
As an English surname, Chow originated as a nickname, from Middle English chowe, meaning "chough" or "jackdaw". [1]As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation):
The name is widely used in Hong Kong and some of the Commonwealth countries. Many migrants moved to parts of south-east Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. Wong is also a rare English surname derived from Old English "Geong" meaning young. However, Young is the more common surname from this origin.
As a variant spelling of Tye, a locative surname from Middle English atte teye 'at the enclosure' Also as a locative surname, from an erroneous rebracketing of atte e 'at the stream' Tee may also be the spelling of multiple Chinese surnames , based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese ; they are listed below by their ...
Famous people: A couple of surnames originate from famous people in Chinese history. For example, the surname 李 originates from Lao Tzu. This probably means that people today with the surname 李 are mostly descendants of Lao Tzu, including the Tang emperors. Many also changed their surnames throughout history for a number of reasons.
Early records of the English surname Toy include a Robert Toy of Gainford in the patent rolls for 1339. [1] As a Chinese surname, Toy is a spelling, based on the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese, of the following Chinese surnames, listed by their spelling in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the Standard Mandarin pronunciation: