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A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with...

Smith is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada,...

Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use...

surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames. "Chang" is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames...

the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. It is spoken...

common Chinese surnames 王 (Wáng) and 汪 (Wāng). It is currently the most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most common surnames in Asia, with...

is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by...

A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name, which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's...

the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 曹 (Cáo). It is listed 26th in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames poem. Cao is romanized as "Tsao" in Wade-Giles...

Rén is the Mandarin pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname written 任 in Chinese script. It is romanised as Jen in Wade–Giles, and Yam or Yum in Cantonese...

romanization of the East Asian surname 潘. It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles;...

Chinese surname written 苏 in simplified characters and 蘇 traditionally. It was listed 42nd among the Song-era list of the Hundred Family Surnames. In 2019...

Ji is the pinyin romanization of a number of distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Depending on the character...

name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the Hundred Family Surnames text. The Yang clan was founded by...

Liang (Chinese: 梁) is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong...

Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this...

Xiong is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 熊 (Xióng). It is 41st in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 熊紀舒屈 (Xiong, Ji, Shu...

Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 庄 in simplified character and 莊 in traditional character. It is usually romanized as...

Qiu is an East Asian surname (Chinese: 丘/邱; pinyin: Qiū; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu1; Jyutping: Jau1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khu). This surname is common in Mainland China...

the English spelling of a Chinese surname. During the Zhou Dynasty, Wei (state) (魏) the Ji family acquired the surname Wèi (魏). During the Northern Wei...