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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.
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 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.
Tan is the Chinese character's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin Chinese.It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects. [3]In Cantonese Chinese, it is romanised as Taam4 in Jyutping and Tàahm in Cantonese Yale.
"Teo" and "Chong" are amongst the most common surnames among Chinese Singaporeans, listed at 11th and 19th respectively; [11] "Chang" is the 6th-most-common surname among Chinese Americans; and "Zhang" was the 7th-most-common particularly Chinese surname found in a 2010 survey of Ontario's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card ...
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 ...
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.
Chinn, surname; Chin Kung (born 1927), Chinese Buddhist monk (Chin Kung is his dharma name) Eusoff Chin (full name Mohamed Eusoff bin Chin, born 1936), Malaysian lawyer (Chin is a patronymic) Chin Sian Thang (1938–2021), chairman of the Zomi Congress for Democracy in Myanmar (Burmese names do not have surnames)