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Question by  harietta (37)

What is the best way to determine ethnicity of surnames?

 
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Answer by  Roland27 (16334)

Online is the easiest. There are sites where you type in the name and they give you the origin of that name.

 
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Answer by  Barbie87 (277)

Most Chinese surnames are a single syllable. Korean surnames are most often Kim. The most popular Vietnamese surname is Nguyen. Japanese surnames are multi-syllabic and contains a lot of vowels. African-American surnames that are very common include: White, Jackson, and Brown. Irish and Scottish surnames usually have and O'-something in them. Italian surnames usually end in -nio.

 
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Answer by  wantnot (305)

It helps to know a lot of people with different ethnic ancestry. You can just ask them about the ethnicity of their surnames, and figure out a pattern; for example, names ending in -ski are probably Polish, while names ending in -sky are probably Czech. Watch the Olympics to learn a lot of ethnic names!

 
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