Given name & surname · also Hakka
Yiu
Yiu is a surname from Hakka, ultimately from Chinese.
Original Chinese姚
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Yiu comes from Hakka, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Yiu as a surname developed from 姚.
Yiu’s family of names
In English usage, Yiu as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Yao. In English usage, Yiu as a surname developed from the Chinese form 姚.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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