Tong is a Chinese surname. Tong as transcribed in English however represents of a number of different Chinese surnames.
There were 8,589 Tongs in the United States during the year 2000 census, making it the 3,075th surname overall and the 121st surname among Asian and Pacific Islanders.[1]
Tong was also listed among the 200-most-common Chinese surnames in a 2010 survey of the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario.[2] Tong may be the romanisation of the very common surname Zhang (張), as well as others such as Deng (鄧), Zhuang (莊), Teng (滕), and a number of Tongs (童, 同 and 佟).
See also: Zhang (surname), Zhuang (surname) and Deng (Chinese surname). Tong is a Gan romanization of the Chinese surnames Zhang (trad. Chinese: {{linktext|張, simp. Chinese: {{linktext|张) and Zhuang (trad. Chinese: {{linktext|莊, simp. Chinese: {{linktext|庄).
Tong is also the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Tang (唐).
Tong (同) | |
Meaning: | Same |
Variant: | Tang Tung Ting |
See also: | Shang dynasty |
During the Shang dynasty period, Lord Zi (子) founded the state of Tong (同国) in Shaanxi of China, later the Zi (子) family used the surname Tong (同, Tóng). The Tong surname may also have originated as a surname given to public officers during the middle Zhou dynasty.
Some Tong families are said to be descendants of Sima Qian. Sima Qian was a Han dynasty historian who wrote the Records of the Grand Historian. According to this story, when Sima Qian was put in prison by the Emperor, his children fled. His two sons decided to change their name, each using one character of the Sima surname (司马). The Si (司) was modified to Tong (同) by the addition of a stroke, while Ma (馬) was modified to Feng (馮). There remains a taboo that the two families should not intermarry.[3]
Tong (佟) | |
Variant: | Teng Tang |
Derivative: | Tung |
See also: | Xia dynasty |
Pronounced Tong (Tóng) in Mandarin Chinese, but Tung in Cantonese
Tong family originated from
Tong (童) | |
Variant: | Tung Thong Tang |
See also: | Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors |
Tong family originated from
See https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BB%9D 仝 for Second-round simplified Chinese character