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She Surname Meaning

Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 佘: (i) perhaps a miswritten and mispronounced form of another Chinese surname 余. See Yu (ii) possibly a shortened form of the Chinese compound surname She Qiu (佘丘), the name of a fief in the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC).

Mandarin form of the surname 厙 or 庫: surname from the minority ethnic groups in northwestern China during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) said to be borne by the descendants of She Jun (厙均), a general during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD).

Variant Romanization of the surnames 徐 and 許, see Xu 1 and variant Romanization of the surname 石, see Shi.

Variant Romanization of the surname 謝, see Xie.

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


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Between 1977 and 2003, in the United States, She life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1995, and highest in 1996. The average life expectancy for She in 1977 was 74, and 82 in 2003.

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