Sang (surname)

Romanisation	Sang
Language(s)	Chinese

Sang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 桑 (Sāng). A variant traditional form is 桒. 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.[1]

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.[2]

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

References

1. US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name?" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.
2. Baxter, Wm. H. & Sagart, Laurent. "Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. (1.93 MB), p. 121. 2011. Accessed 11 October 2011.