Woon Family History

Cornish (Cornwall and Devon): habitational name from one or both of the groups of farms called Woon in Roche and Luxulyan parishes named with Middle Cornish goon ‘downland unenclosed pasture’ or possibly from some other lost placename of the same form elsewhere in Cornwall.

Chinese: variant of the surname 溫 see Wen. This form is based on the Teochew, Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka or Taishan pronunciation of the name; the pronunciation is found in Taiwan, Fujian province, and Guangdong province from where people migrated to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 阮 see Ruan.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 雲 see Yun.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 翁 see Weng. Chinese: possibly from Romanization of some Chinese names (e.g. 雲 meaning ‘clouds’) which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.