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Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 歐陽 from Ou-Yu (歐餘) the name of a hill in Wucheng (in present-day Zhejiang province) which was granted to Ti the second son of king Wujiang (reigned 355–333 BC) in the state of Yue. Most of his descendants lived to the south of the hill called Ou-Yu (歐餘). The southern side of a hill was called Yang (陽) in ancient Chinese; the surname Ou-Yang (歐陽) literally means ‘the south of the Ou-Yu (歐餘) hill’. See also Ou

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


Similar surnames: Yang, Wang, Ying, Huang, Owyang, Yano, Kuang, O'ryan, Bunyan

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