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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : a rare example of a two-character Chinese surname, from a phrase meaning ‘the sunny (south) side of Ou mountain’. It was adopted by descendants of a prince who was enfeoffed to an area that included land to the south of a mountain whose name contains the character for Ou.

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