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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 women generally retain their maiden name and use their name unchanged after marriage, but in modern times in some communities, some women may choose to attach their husband's surname to the front. [21] Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use ...
Pages in category "Chinese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 349 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yong (雍) is a Chinese surname. [2] It is Romanized as Yung in Wade-Giles, Iong in Min Nan and Yung in Cantonese. [3] According to a 2013 study, it was the 339th most common name in China; it was shared by 139,000 people, or 0.01% of the population, being most popular in Sichuan. [4]
Most of the Manchu clans took on their Han surnames after the demise of the Qing dynasty.Several clans took on Han identity as early as in the Ming dynasty period. The surnames were derived from the Chinese meaning of their original clan name, Chinese transliteration of the clan's name, the possessed territories, generation and personal names of the clansmen and also inspired by the surnames ...
Languages using the Latin alphabet do not distinguish between these different Chinese surnames, rendering them all as Li. In the United States, Li is the 14th most common surname among people of Asian-Pacific Islander descent and the 519th most common surname overall, [3] up from 2,084th in 1990. [4] Li is the 3rd most common Chinese surname in ...
Weng Fanggang (1733–1818), Chinese calligrapher, literary critic, philosopher, and poet; Weng Hongyang (born 1999), Chinese male badminton player; Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), Chinese Confucian scholar; Weng Weng (1957–1992), Filipino actor and martial artist; William Weng (1907–1993), American journalist and crossword puzzle constructor
Láng is a surname of Manchu-Chinese origin (Chinese: 郎; pinyin: Láng).It was an official title in imperial times, meaning "minister" or "councillor". [1] According to a 2013 study, it is the 242nd most common surname, with around 370,000 or 0.028% of the total population having the name, and Hebei being the province with the most people sharing the name. [2]