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Today, the surname appears among the Manchu, Mongols, Yao, Yi, Bai, Koreans and Tibetans. There are major Yuan clans among the Yao in Long'an county , Guangxi and in Funing , Yunnan. The Yuan surname is a relatively minor one in Korea , where it is called Won (원).
Yuen is a Cantonese Chinese surname, which can refer to: 袁, 阮, 元, 源, 原 and 苑 Yuan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surnames 袁, 元, 源, 原 and 苑; Ruan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surname 阮; Chinese yuan, the basic unit of currency in China
According to a 2013 study, it was the 390th most common name in China; it was shared by 39,000 people, or 0.0067% of the population, being most popular in Shanxi. [3] It is the 283rd name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [4] [5] It should not be confused with the much more popular surname Yīn (殷), whose name comes from the Shang capital ...
Yun is the surname of many Tümeds, a Chinese-speaking Mongol ethnic group. [5] Some Tumeds had the surname "Yun" during China's Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and claim even more ancient origins. However, adoption of the surname greatly increased during the 1920s, and especially after the 1949 revolution , which increased Mongols' access to ...
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It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the Czech Republic. [ 12 ] In the United States, Nguyen is the 38th most-common surname and is shared by more than 437,000 individuals, [ 13 ] according to the 2010 Census ; it was the 57th and 229th most-common surname, respectively, in the 2000 [ 14 ...
The Korean surname Yun and the Vietnamese surname Doãn are derived from Yin and traditionally written in the same Chinese character. A 2013 study found it to be the 79th most common surname, being shared by 3,460,000 people or 0.260% of the population, with the province with the most being Hunan .
Yun (Korean: 윤) is a family name in Korea, which means "governor". The name is sometimes also transliterated as Yoon, Yune, Yiun, or Youn. According to the 2000 census, 948,600 people had the surname in South Korea. [1] It derives from the Chinese character 尹.