Phạm Explained

Phạm
Language:Vietnamese
Variant Forms:Fan, Huan, Fam, Hwang, Fung (from Chinese), Beom/Pŏm/Pem (Korean)

Phạm (范) is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name. It may be rendered as Fan in Chinese or Beom/Pom/Pem (범) in Korean.

It is not to be confused with Phan (潘), another Vietnamese surname.

Origin

Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chữ Hán: .

Phạm arose in historical sources from around the third century CE. It was the title prepositions before names of kings of Lâm Ấp, kings of Funan, the eight chiefs of Jiao, and several tribal figures along the Annamite Mountain between the third to the seventh century CE. American historian Michael Vickery (1998) links the reconstructs the pronunciation of 范 as *buam and *bĭwɐm in Early Middle Chinese (c. 650 CE) with Old Khmer title poñ which was recorded in various 7th-century Cambodian inscriptions.[1] Later, a Phạm family emerged on the coastal side of the Red River basin in the 10th century. Vickery argues that the term was certainly of Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic) origin, and the described demographics associated with the term (*bĭwɐm < *krum ~ prum, krom, khom) are strong linguistic indications of Mon-Khmer.[2] The term is still preserved in few Austroasiatic languages today, such as Temoq *puang (ritualist) ~ puiyang (shaman, + nominalizing infix -iy-) < pauñ < poñ, suggesting a pre-Buddhist native Mon-Khmer institution of leadership who possessed both shamanistic ritual and political roles.[3]

Frequency

Phạm is a very prevalent last name in Vietnam.Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the fourth-most common name, accounting for 5% of the approximately 75 million people. It is also quite common in the United States, shared by around 82,000 citizens.[4] It is the 951st most common surname in France[5] and the 455th most common in Australia.[6] [7]

People

Notable people with the surname Phạm include:

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See also

References

  1. Book: Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. 978-4-89656-110-4. Vickery. Michael. Michael Vickery. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. 1998. 65.
  2. Book: Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. 978-4-89656-110-4. Vickery. Michael. Michael Vickery. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. 1998. 66-68.
  3. Book: Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: the 7th-8th centuries. 978-4-89656-110-4. Vickery. Michael. Michael Vickery. Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko. 1998. 203.
  4. Web site: Pham Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History. 2022-02-07. forebears.io.
  5. http://nom-de-famille.linternaute.com/noms/1/16/france.shtml French surnames
  6. [Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]
  7. Web site: Most Common Australian Surnames & Meanings. 2022-01-04. forebears.io.

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