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 (謝)
  • Che (車)

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

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

For people with the same Chinese surname spelled other ways in English, see Xie (surname) § Famous people with the surname Xie.

Chinese surname 賈

For people with the same Chinese surname spelled other ways in English, see Jia (surname) § Notable people, and zh:賈姓.

Other or unknown

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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Popular Chinese Surnames in Singapore". Statistics Singapore Newsletter. Vol. 20, no. 2. October 1997. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Diffusione del cognome Chia". Mappe dei Cognomi Italiani. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  4. ^ Louie, Emma Woo (1988). Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition. McFarland. pp. 40, 75, 183. ISBN 9780786438778.
  5. ^ a b c d Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 31. ISBN 9780806349466.
  6. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 491. ISBN 9780192527479.
  7. ^ Fielde, Adele M. (1883). "謝". A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 94. Additionally see "謝". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  8. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 491
  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.
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