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Ouyang Surname Meaning

Mandarin form of the Chinese surname 歐陽 (Auyeung in Cantonese romanization): from Ou-Yu (歐餘) name of a hill in Wucheng (in present-day Zhejiang province) which was granted to Ti the second son of king Wujiang (reigned 355–333 BC) in the state of Yue.

Most of his descendants lived to the south of the hill called Ou-Yu (歐餘). The southern side of a hill was called Yang (陽) in ancient Chinese; the surname Ou-Yang (歐陽) literally means ‘the south of the Ou-Yu (歐餘) hill’.

See also Au (2).

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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