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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 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]
Other names. Variant form (s) Lee, Lei. Derivative (s) Lee/이 (Korean) Lee/หลี่ (Thai) Ly/Lý (Vietnamese) Li or Lee ( [lì]; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames.[ 1] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in ...
Hundred Family Surnames poem written in Chinese characters and Phagspa script, from Shilin Guangji written by Chen Yuanjing in the Yuan dynasty. The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.
Wang ( / wɑːŋ /) is the pinyin romanization of the common Chinese surnames 王 ( Wáng ). It is currently the most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most common surnames in Asia, with more than 107 million in Asia. It is the 8th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames. [ 2][ 3]
Ngov. Vue) (Hmong surname) Wú is the pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 (Simplified Chinese 吴 ), which is a common surname (family name) in Mainland China. Wú (吳) is the sixth name listed in the Song dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames. [ 1] In 2019 Wu was the ninth most common surname in Mainland China. [ 2]
Yang, Yaung, Kaung ( Burmese) Yaj ( Hmong) Derivative (s) Dương, Yana, Saeyang, Yongki, Yoso, Yohan, Muljoto. Yang ( [jǎŋ]; simplified Chinese: 杨; traditional Chinese: 楊; pinyin: Yáng) is the transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the Hundred Family ...
When choosing a Chinese baby boy name, look for a positive meaning, family connections, and any special significance the name has to you. Here are 100 from which to choose. Chinese names for baby boys