Tong (surname)

Tong (童)
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Origin
Derivation	Zhuanxu
Other names
Variant form(s)	Tung Thong Tang
See also	Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

Tong (佟)
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Origin
Derivation	Jie of Xia
Other names
Variant form(s)	Teng Tang
Derivative(s)	Tung
See also	Xia dynasty

Tong (同)
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Origin
Derivation	Tang of Shang
Meaning	Same
Other names
Variant form(s)	Tang Tung Ting
See also	Shang dynasty

Tong is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames.

There were 8,589 Tongs in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 3,075th surname overall and the 121st surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.^[1]

Tong was also listed among the 200-most-common Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario.^[2] Tong may be the romanisation of the very common surname Zhang (張), as well as others such as Deng (鄧), Zhuang (莊), Teng (滕), and a number of Tongs (童, 同 and 佟).

Origin of some common Tongs (張, 莊, 滕, 鄧)

Tong is a Gan romanization of the Chinese surnames Zhang (trad. 張, simp. 张) and Zhuang (trad. 莊, simp. 庄).

Tong is also the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Tang (唐).

同 Tóng

During the Shang dynasty period, Lord Zi (子) founded the state of Tong (同国) in Shaanxi of China, later the Zi (子) family used the surname Tong (同, Tóng).^{[citation needed]} The Tong surname may also have originated as a surname given to public officers during the middle Zhou dynasty.

Some Tong families are said to be descendants of Sima Qian. Sima Qian was a Han dynasty historian who wrote the Records of the Grand Historian. According to this story, when Sima Qian was put in prison by the Emperor, his children fled. His two sons decided to change their name, each using one character of the Sima surname (司马). The Si (司) was modified to Tong (同) by the addition of a stroke, while Ma (馬) was modified to Feng (馮). There remains a taboo that the two families should not intermarry.^[3]

佟 Tóng

Pronounced Tong (佟, Tóng) in Mandarin Chinese, but Tung in Cantonese

Tong family originated from

Jie of the last Xia dynasty period.
Jin (真) people the Chinese Minority.
Various Chinese Minority Group on Any dynasty period.
Jurchen people (女眞) of early Qing dynasty period.
Xibe people (锡伯) the Chinese Minority in Liaoning.
Donghu people the Mongolian after Han dynasty period.^{[citation needed]}
the Sinicization of the Manchu clan name/surname Tunggiya

童 Tóng

Tong family originated from

Lao Tong (老童), the son of Zhuanxu, one of mythical Five Emperors
Xu Tong (胥童) of Eastern Zhou and the Spring and Autumn period
Futong (夫童), a city in the Spring and Autumn period
Tongshi (童使), the name of male servants before Qin dynasty to Song dynasty
Descendants of Dong Zhuo (董卓), who changed their surname to avoid persecution
Mongol people of Qing dynasty
Hui people originated in Xiyu (西域)
Other ethnic minorities who adopted the Han Chinese surname

See [1] 仝 for Second-round simplified Chinese character

References

^ US Census Bureau. 2000 US Census. Op. cit. Butler, Rhett. "Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." 2008. Retrieved 16 Apr 2012.
^ Shah, B. R.; Chiu, M.; Amin, S.; Ramani, M.; Sadry, S.; Tu, J. V. (2010). "Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 10: 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-42. PMC 2877682. PMID 20470433.
^ "清明时节：韩城瞻仰司马迁祠墓寻访史圣后人". CNWest.com.

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[Monga-1] US Census Bureau. 2000 US Census. Op. cit. Butler, Rhett. "Most Common Last Names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." 2008. Retrieved 16 Apr 2012.

[2] Shah, B. R.; Chiu, M.; Amin, S.; Ramani, M.; Sadry, S.; Tu, J. V. (2010). "Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 10: 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-42. PMC 2877682. PMID 20470433.

[3] "清明时节：韩城瞻仰司马迁祠墓寻访史圣后人". CNWest.com.

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