Shēn (surname)
Shēn is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 申.
Shen is the 298th surname in the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.
Romanisation
申 is romanised as Shin (신) in Korean and Thân in Vietnamese.
Distribution
Shen is unlisted among the
100 most common surnames on Taiwan
in 2005.
Likewise, although Chinese make up the largest part of America's
2000 US census.[2]
Nonetheless, it is regionally popular in the
Yangtze River
.
In Korea Shin is the 13th most common surname (sorted by Hanja character).
Origin
As is common with Chinese surnames, the modern Shen family arose from various unrelated sources.
One origin of the Shen was the
clan name
.
Another origin of the Shen was with a second
Shishen. When this Shen was destroyed by King Zhao of Zhou
, its rulers and vassals also adopted Shen as their clan name.
A third
Jiang (姜), and arose from territory granted to King Xuan's maternal uncle[who?] from the lands of the former state of Xie
. This land's rulers and people also ended in adopting the region as their clan name following its destruction.
References
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "Census 2000: Chinese Largest Asian Group in the United States". 4 Mar 2002. Accessed 29 Mar 2012.
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000 Archived 2009-12-21 at the Wayback Machine". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012.
This page lists people with the surname Shēn.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.