The surname Auyeung
A Chinese surname, carried by 1,333 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A520
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Cantonese 歐陽 /欧阳 (au¹ joeng⁴).
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,333 people named Auyeung in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 231,617 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,161.
Who is named Auyeung
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Auyeung identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.5% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 96%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Ouyeung
- Auyoung
- Ouyoung
- Auyong
- Ouyong
- Oyeung
- Oyoung
- Oyong
- Ouyang
- Oyang
Auyeung has the Soundex code A520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A520.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Auyeung come from?
- Borrowed from Cantonese 歐陽 /欧阳 (au¹ joeng⁴).
- How common is the surname Auyeung?
- 1,333 people in the United States had the surname Auyeung in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 231,617 Americans. It ranked 20,057th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Auyeung?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Auyeung identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.5% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Auyeung getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,333 in 2010, up 15%.
- What are other spellings of Auyeung?
- Ouyeung, Auyoung, Ouyoung, Auyong, Ouyong and Oyeung.