Topic summary
Filipino-Chinese
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Chinese Filipinos.
Surnames
Filipino-Chinese whose ancestors came to the Philippines from 1885 onward usually have monosyllabic Chinese surnames. On the other hand, most Chinese ancestors came to the Philippines prior to 1885 usually have multisyllabic surnames such as Gokongwei, Ongpin, Cuyegkeng, Pempengco, Yuchengco, Tansipek, Teehankee, CuUnjieng and Yaptinchay among such others. These were originally full Chinese names which were transliterated in Spanish orthography and adopted as surnames.