Sang (surname)

Romanisation	Sang
Language(s)	Chinese

Sang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 桑 (Sāng). A variant traditional form is 桒. Both forms were unlisted among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.

Distribution[]

Sang was unlisted among the 100-most-common surnames in mainland China in 2007 or on Taiwan in 2005. It was the 16,712nd most common name in United States during the 2000 US Census.^[1]

History[]

Sang literally means "mulberry". Its Old Chinese form has been reconstructed as *sˤaŋ, but it was already Sang by the time of Middle Chinese.^[2]

List of persons with the surname[]

Sang Guowei (b. 1941), Chinese politician
Sang Hongyang (c. 152–80 BC), Han-era official
Sang Lan (b. 1981), Chinese gymnast and television personality
Samantha Sang (b. 1951), the stage name of the Chinese-Australian singer Cheryl Lau Sang
Stephanie Sang Xu (b. 1986), Chinese-Australian table tennis player
Sang Xue (b. 1984), Chinese diver
Sang Yang (b. 1982), Chinese badminton player

Tom Sang (b. 1999), football player from Liverpool, England

References[]

^ US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name?" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.
^ Baxter, Wm. H. & Sagart, Laurent. "Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. (1.93 MB), p. 121. 2011. Accessed 11 October 2011.

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[1] US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name?" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.

[BaxSag-2] Baxter, Wm. H. & Sagart, Laurent. "Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. (1.93 MB), p. 121. 2011. Accessed 11 October 2011.

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