Family name origins & meanings
- Chinese :
during the Spring and Autumn period
(722–481 bc), a prince of the state of Yue was enfeoffed a
region that included a mountain the name of which contained the
Chinese character for Ou. Many of the prince’s descendants
adopted this character as their surname. Other descendants adopted the
surname Ou Yang (the most common of the two-character Chinese
surnames), composed of this character together with a character
meaning ‘sunny’, indicating the region to the south of the mountain. - Cambodian or other Southeast Asian : unexplained.