Chia (surname)

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Chia
PronunciationPronounced in English roughly as /t͡ʃia/ for Chinese surnames, and /kia/ for the Italian surname
Language(s)Often Chinese, also sometimes Italian
Other names
Variant form(s)
  • Jia, Kar (家, 賈)
  • Jia (郟, 甲)
  • Xie, Hsieh, Tse ()
  • Che ()

Chia is a surname. It is a Latin-alphabet spelling of various Chinese surnames, as well as an Italian surname.

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Statistics

Chia was the 20th-most common Chinese surname in Singapore as of 1997 (ranked by English spelling, rather than by Chinese characters). Roughly 22,600 people, or 0.9% of the Chinese Singaporean population at the time, bore the surname Chia. [1] Among respondents to the 2000 United States Census, Chia was the 856th-most common surname among Asian Pacific Americans, and 17,530th-most common overall, with 1,481 bearers (72.78% of whom identified as Asian/Pacific Islander). [2] In Italy, 72 families bore the surname Chia, with more than half located in Sardinia. [3]

Origins

Chia may be a spelling of a number of Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese, listed below by their romanisation in Mandarin pinyin:

It is also an Italian toponymic surname referring to Chia, Province of South Sardinia. That toponym may have originated from a Phoenician word for "valley". [10]

Chinese surname 谢

Chinese surname 賈

Other or unknown

People with a non-Chinese surname Chia, or whose names as written in Chinese characters are not available:

See also

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References

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  2. "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay . Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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  4. Louie, Emma Woo (1988). Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition. McFarland. pp. 40, 75, 183. ISBN   9780786438778.
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  9. Fielde 1883 , p.  94. Additionally see "車". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  10. Concas, Giuseppe. "Chia". Origine & significato dei cognome sardi. Retrieved 18 January 2018.