Sang (surname)

Sang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (Sāng). A variant traditional form is . Both forms were unlisted among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.

Distribution

Sang was unlisted among the 100-most-common surnames in mainland China in 2007 or on Taiwan in 2005. It was the 16,712th most common name in United States during the 2000 US census.

History

Sang literally means "mulberry". Its Old Chinese form has been reconstructed as *sˤaŋ, but it was already Sang by the time of Middle Chinese.

List of persons with the surname

• Sang Guowei (b. 1941), Chinese politician
• Sang Hongyang (c. 152–80 BC), Han-era official
• Sang Lan (b. 1981), Chinese gymnast and television personality
• Samantha Sang (b. 1951), the stage name of the Chinese-Australian singer Cheryl Lau Sang
• Stephanie Sang Xu (b. 1986), Chinese-Australian table tennis player
• Sang Xue (b. 1984), Chinese diver
• Sang Yang (b. 1982), Chinese badminton player

• Tom Sang (b. 1999), football player from Liverpool, England

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