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Chinese surname

Surname Ah

Ah is a familiar prefix from the character 阿, placed before Chinese names, as in Ah Mei.

Characters for the surname Ah

The spelling Ah is common in Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka romanization.

  • 阿

    familiar prefix before given names, surnames and kinship terms

    Hokkien a / Cantonese aa3 / Hakka â / Mandarin ā

About the surname Ah

Ah is a prefix element, from the character 阿, placed before a given name, surname or kinship term to show familiarity, as in Ah Mei or Ah Seng. Wiktionary notes it is traditionally found in rural or southern Chinese dialects. It is rarely a name on its own. According to JPN, Ah was recorded in the 1940s with 962 baby girls.

Ah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 962 · 5.1%
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. In these records the name JPN publishes is often the surname. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 阿 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 阿 · mdbg.net · meaning

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