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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]
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]
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]
Hồ (胡) is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Hu in Chinese and Ho in Korean. Ho is the anglicized variation of the surname Hồ. Not be confused with Ho surname in Chinese. The Hồ 胡 clan which founded the Hồ dynasty in Vietnam originated in Zhejiang province of China. [1] [2]
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
Mandarin Chinese: Origin; Language(s) ... Other spellings include Hee and Hu. In Japanese, the surname ... descendants of King Ruo'mu adopted their country's name ...
Hé was listed as the 21st most common surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. A common alternative spelling of the surname is Ho, which is the Mandarin Wade–Giles romanization and the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese family names. In the Korean language, the equivalent surname is Ha (하). In the Vietnamese language, the equivalent ...
The surname originated as a semantic variant of Qing (庆), which can be traced back to Qing Feng (庆封), the great-grandson of Duke Huan of Qi.In the Eastern Han dynasty, a well-known official and descendant of the Qing family, Qing Chun (庆纯), changed his surname to He, which has the same meaning as Qing, because his surname Qing happened to be the given name of Liu Qing (刘庆), the ...