Wee (surname)

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Wee is a surname.

Origins

As a Chinese surname, Wee is an English-language spelling of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of multiple surnames. Those surnames are listed below by their romanisation in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the standard Mandarin pronunciation:

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Wee is also a Norwegian surname.

Statistics

Statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011 found 150 people on the island of Great Britain and eight on the island of Ireland with the surname Wee. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there were three bearers of the surname. [4] The 2010 United States census found 1,353 people with the surname Wee, making it the 19,865th-most-common surname in the country, representing a slight increase from the 2000 census (1,295 people; 19,355th-most-common). In the 2010 census, roughly 22% of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white (down from 29% in the 2000 census), while the number identifying as Asian increased from 62% in the 2000 census to 72% in the 2010 census.. [5]

As of 2021, there were 130 people in Norway with the surname Wee. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Arlene Chan (2013). The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now. Dundurn. p. 168. ISBN   9781459707719.
  2. ↑ Norliza Rofli; Eddin Khoo (2009). Malaysian Culture: An Introduction. Jabatan Kebudayaan & Kesenian Negara. p. 51. ISBN   9789834425241.
  3. ↑ Michael Backman (2005). Inside Knowledge: Streetwise in Asia. Springer. p. 15. ISBN   9780230522398.
  4. 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2854. ISBN   9780192527479.
  5. ↑ "How common is your last name? (Wee)". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Names". Statistics Norway. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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