Anyone has a rare Chinese surname?

[ZedMaster]

Is there a surname with 2 or more syllables?

 

[TheITGuy]

My surname is 上官

 

[rathalos]

My surname is 屁.. most rare of them all..

 

[70niner]

How to change? How can one change the surname?

Either your ancestors changed themselves for various reasons, or Chinese gahmen (Qing / ROC) got them to change

 

[70niner]

辛 counted or not?

Personally I would say quite rare

 

[PaperRay]

where's the chart

https://www.sohu.com/a/368180115_99906645

 

[Kunkka]

Rare one cannot say here later can csi

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[PiPiChew]

mine is 习, quite rare

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[Kunkka]

Can trust this websai

https://forebears.io/singapore/surnames

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[PaulLevesque]

mine is actually Cong as in 琮

 

[70niner]

Is there a surname with 2 or more syllables?

复姓 or compound surnames

local common ones are Ouyang and Situ

Haven't heard of other compound surnames locally

 

[PaperRay]

Can trust this websai

https://forebears.io/singapore/surnames

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my surname not in this website XD... but found similar

 

[CSNation]

Can trust this websai

https://forebears.io/singapore/surnames

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My proper surname is in Cantonese. Can't even find in the list.

If use Mandarin, I am not in top 50 either. So is less common.

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[Kunkka]

My proper surname is in Cantonese. Can't even find in the list.

If use Mandarin, I am not in top 50 either. So is less common.

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Can check Malaysia side too

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[scourge]

Can trust this websai

https://forebears.io/singapore/surnames

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the website use english surnames, not accurate one...

eg.

chan, chen, tan can be the same surname 陈 in chinese, but they are grouped separately.

chan can be 陈, 曾 (and even 田?) depending on the dialect, but they are grouped together.

 

[yummie]

Is there a surname with 2 or more syllables?

sima, seetoh lo. seetoh yi ping from potong pasir smc remember??? r u tat unaware of sg????

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[ZedMaster]

sima, seetoh lo. seetoh yi ping from potong pasir smc remember??? r u tat unaware of sg????

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I don't think I've heard of that name.

 

[Multiversal]

How to change? How can one change the surname?

Call your elderly neighbour "Papa"?

 

[politicalsg]

Most of the 'uncommon' ones are just variations or clan-alternatives of the common ones.

 

[Multiversal]

the website use english surnames, not accurate one...

eg.

chan, chen, tan can be the same surname 陈 in chinese, but they are grouped separately.

chan can be 陈, 曾 (and even 田?) depending on the dialect, but they are grouped together.

I guess it depends on how 陈 is pronounced in various dialects, and then the older generation who tried to improvise their system of "pinyin" spelt it as Chan if he was a Cantonese, and as Tan if he was a Hokkien. Only recently when the government made the Mandarin dialect the putonghua among ethnic Chinese, then we started to write "Chen"

Same goes for other surnames. For eg. 黄 is Wong for the Cantonese because this is how they say it, but Ng in another dialect, and of course Huang in the Mandarin dialect.