Last name: SIN

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SIN : This last name is indexed 33,367 times on Geneanet!

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SIN : 1: Chinese: Cantonese form of the surnames 冼 and 洗 see Xian 1.2: Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 單 see Shan 1.3: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 孫 see Sun 1.4: Chinese: Hokkien or Hakka Romanization of the surname 申 see Shen 2.5: Chinese: Hokkien or Hakka Romanization of the surname 辛 see Xin 1.6: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 盛 see Sheng.7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 沈 see Shen 1.8: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 陳 based on its pronunciation in the Hainanese dialect see Chen 1.9: Korean: variant of Shin 1.10: Cambodian: written ស៊ិន or ស៊ីន of Chinese origin corresponding to 森 a common male personal name in China meaning ‘forest’. Compare Sinn 4.11: Vietnamese: unexplained.

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