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The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share the same full name. In one sample of 45,665 names, 81% of family names were unique.
People from Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and Hong Kong usually base their romanization of surnames and names on the Min, Hakka and Cantonese languages. The younger generation from Singapore often has their surname in dialect ((Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese, Cantonese, and Hakka) and given names in ...
Lists of East Asian surnames. Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames. List of common Japanese surnames.
By way of comparison, the 2000 census found the most common surname in the United States – Smith – had fewer than 2.4 million occurrences and made up only 0.84% of the general population. The top 100 surnames accounted for only 16.4% of the US population, [3] and reaching 89.8% of the US population required more than 150,000 surnames.
Southeast Asia Indonesia. In Indonesia, the surname is often romanized as "Heng", "Bong" or "Ong" for people of Hokkien descent, and more commonly as Ong by Chinese Peranakan. In some cases, the meaning of the names were translated into a name that sounds more like the area where these immigrant families settled in such as the surname Suraja ...
In the context of paragoge, Chinese Indonesians adopted Indonesian-sounding surnames by appending a suffix to their Chinese surname. As an example, Kimun Ongkosandjojo adopted his surname by combining his Chinese surname Ong (王) with the suffix - kosandjojo meaning "one who brings victory". Other examples include Lukita for Lu (呂), as used ...
This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
Saraiki-language surnames (3 P) Surnames of Saudi Arabian origin (5 P) Surnames of Hindustani origin (3 C, 53 P) Surnames of Indian origin (35 C, 1,053 P) Surnames of Indo-Iranian origin (22 C, 2 P) Surnames of Sinhalese origin (139 P) Surnames of South Asian origin (9 C, 5 P)