Frequency: (353)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Chinese 夏: variant of Xia.
GIVEN NAMES: Chinese 20%. Ching (2), Chiu (2), Liang (2), Ming (2), Pei (2), Shu (2), Yuan (2), Chen, Chen-Li, Cheng, Chengyu, Cheung.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.




