Yuan (袁)
A Taiwanese surname.
袁 Yüan
- Zhuyin
- ㄩㄢˊ
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Wade-Giles
- Yüan
- Further spellings of 袁
- Yuan
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Uân
- Hakka (Sixian)
- ien¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 91st most common surname, roughly 0.09% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
In classical texts, 'long' (said of a robe).
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Yuan Taotu (轅濤塗), a descendant of Duke Hu of Chen and thus of Shun; the characters 轅, 爰 and 袁 were used interchangeably, and the line settled on 袁. Hall name (堂號): 汝南堂.
Saying it 我姓袁 — wǒ xìng yuán (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄩㄢˊ), "my family name is 袁"
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).