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Ye (traditional Chinese: 葉; simplified Chinese: 叶; pinyin: Yè) is a Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames , [ 1 ] and is the 43rd most common surname in China , with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019.
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Pages in category "Chinese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 346 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yap (surname), Hakka and Minnan romanization of the common Asian surname Ye; Yap Ah Loy (1837–1885), founder of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Yap Kwan Seng (1846–1902), the last Chinese kapitan of Kuala Lumpur; Yap Thiam Hien (1913–1989), Indonesian human rights advocate; Pedro Yap (1918–2003), Chief Justice of the Philippines
His father was Yap Sun Uy (葉蓀衛; Yap is the Minnan pronunciation of the Chinese surname Ye), a Chinese merchant from Nan'an, Fujian Province who had moved to the Philippines in 1900 and adopted the Philippine name Tiongco. Yap converted to Catholicism in order to get approval of the parents to marry Ye Fei's mother Francisca Mercado, a ...
Yú (Chinese: 余; pinyin: Yú) is a Chinese family name. It is also sometimes translated to Yee, the Taishanese spelling, in English. The name is transliterated as Dư in Vietnamese but is very rare in Vietnam. In Indonesia, it is transliterated as Oe (from Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Û) It is the 90th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [1]
Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use both parents' surnames; although this practice has increased in recent times, it is still relatively uncommon in China, with those who adopted both parents' surnames numbering at only 1.1 million in 2018 (up ...
Lan (surname 兰) Lan (surname 蓝) Lang (Chinese surname) Lei (surname) Leng (surname) Li (surname 李) Li (surname 利) Li (surname 厲) Li (surname 栗) Li (surname 酈) Lí (surname 黎) Liang (surname) Liao (surname) Lin (surname) Linghu; Liǔ; Liu (surname 留) Long (Chinese surname) Lou (surname 楼) Lou (surname 娄) Lu (surname 盧) Lu ...