found: Dictionary of American Family names, viewed May 15, 2025:Xin (1: Mandarin form of the surname 辛, meaning ‘hot and spicy’ or ‘suffering’ in Chinese: (i) from the placename Shen (莘), When the name of the fiefdom was adopted as a surname, the written form of the Chinese character was simplified to 辛, which was pronounced the same as 莘 in ancient Chinese. (ii) said to be traced back to Gao Xin Shi (高辛氏), the title of the legendary king Di Ku (or Emperor Ku), who lived prior to the Xia dynasty (2070–1600 bc). 2: Mandarin form of the surname 信, meaning ‘believe’ in Chinese: from the first element of Xin Ling (信陵), 3: Mandarin form of the surname 忻, possibly traced back to Xin Du (忻都), a name appearing during the Yuan dynasty (1206–1368 ad), but the exact bearers of this name were unknown.) Shin (2 Chinese: Hokkien or Taiwanese Romanization of the surname 辛, see Xin 1. 3 Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 沈. Also Hokkien or Taiwanese Romanization of the surname 申, see Shen 1 and 2. 4 Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 邢, see Xing 1.) Ah (Chinese: from the vocative prefix 阿 or 亞, used before Chinese personal names (mainly monosyllabic personal names) and kinship terms, particularly in central and southern China. History: Among early Chinese immigrants in the US, Chinese names prefixed by Ah were widely recorded in the US federal censuses. Ah appears to have been adopted as a new surname by some of the descendants of those early Chinese immigrants.)
