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Looi

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Looi
Language(s)Chinese, Dutch
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Looi is a surname.

Origins

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Like many other similarly-spelled surnames (Lui, Loi, Louie, etc.), it can originate from either of two Chinese surnames which are almost homophonous in Cantonese, though pronounced distinctly in Mandarin:

As a Dutch surname, Looi originated both as shortened version of van de Looi with the tussenvoegsels dropped, and as a patronymic surname derived from the given name Looi. That given name is a regional hypocorism of various other given names: it may be short for Ludolf, or for Lodewijk in Groningen and the southern Netherlands, or for Eligius in Friesland. Alternative spellings include Looij.[4][5]

Statistics

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In the Netherlands, there were nine people with the surname Looi and 35 people with the surname van de Looi as of 2007, up from three and nine respectively in 1947.[6][7]

People

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People with the surname Looi include:

People with the surname van de Looi include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jones, Russel (August 1959). "Chinese Names: Notes on the use of surnames & personal names by the Chinese in Malaya". Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 32 (187): 3–84. JSTOR 41505683.
  2. ^ Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832). A dictionary of the Hok-këèn dialect of the Chinese language, according to the reading and colloquial idioms. East India Company Press. p. 474. Fielde, Adele M. (1883). "雷". A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 368. Additionally see "雷". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. ^ See e.g. Medhurst 1832, p. 436 for the Hokkien pronunciation.
  4. ^ "Looij". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Looi". Nederlandse Voornamenbank. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Looi, van de". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Looi". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 2 January 2020.