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Hu is a Chinese surname. In 2006, it was the 15th most common surname in China. [1] [2] In 2013, it was the 13th most common in China, with 13.7 million Chinese sharing this surname. [3] In 2019, Hu dropped to 15th most common surname in Mainland China. [4]
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
It is the 55th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [2] Hua Mulan (花木兰; 花木蘭), ancient Chinese legendary woman warrior. According to History of Ming, her family name is Zhu (朱), while the History of Qing says it is Wei (魏). Hua Rong (花荣; 花榮), fictional character in Water Margin.
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]
Duke Hu is honoured as the founding ancestor of the Chen surname, which originated in the state of Chen.As of 2020, Chen is the 5th most common surname in China and 4th most common in the world, shared by 70 million people within the country and over 100 million people worldwide (in 2014, there were 54 million in China and 80 million worldwide).
Hoo is a surname. The most common origin for the contemporary surname is that it is an alternate spelling of Hu (surname). Notable people with the surname include: Hoo Ah Kay (1816–1880), Singaporean businessman; Alan Hoo (born 1951), Hong Kong barrister; Hoo Cha-pen (1924–2004), Taiwanese basketball coach
The system itself is more properly called huji (Chinese: 户籍; lit. 'household origin'), and has origins in ancient China; hukou is the registration of an individual in the system. [ a ] A household registration record officially identifies a person as a permanent resident of an area and includes identifying information such as name, parents ...
The Chinese character used to write this surname means "favour" or "benefit". It is the 204th surname in the traditional poem Hundred Family Surnames.The Mingxian Shizu Yanxing Leigao [1] section of the Siku Quanshu encyclopedia states that this surname was adopted from the posthumous name of King Hui of Zhou (676–651 BC).