Yang (楊)
A Taiwanese surname.
楊 Yang
- Zhuyin
- ㄧㄤˊ
- Pinyin
- yáng
- Wade-Giles
- Yang
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Iûnn Iûnn is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while iông is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- iong¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 10th most common surname, roughly 2.64% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Poplar'; the character is also used for the philosopher Yang Zhu (楊朱) and his school.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the Yangshe (羊舌) family of the state of Jin, of the Ji (姬) clan, who held the fief of Yang (楊) in present-day Shanxi; their descendants took the name of the fief. Hall name (堂號): 弘農堂.
Saying it 我姓楊 — wǒ xìng yáng (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄤˊ), "my family name is 楊"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).