Bai Jia Xing compound surname #16
濮阳
濮阳 is read as Púyáng. It is one of the 60 compound surnames in the expanded Bai Jia Xing sequence.
Púyáng
Simplified 濮阳 · Traditional 濮陽
place-name surname: Pu River plus yang, the sunny side of a river
Water
Time: Zhou to Han textual tradition, c. 1046 BCE-220 CE
Place: Ancient Puyang / Diqiu around present-day Puyang, Henan
Origin
濮阳 is a toponymic surname from the ancient Puyang area, associated with the Pu River and old Diqiu or Chanzhou traditions. Surname sources treat it as an address-based surname for people connected with that place.
Name meaning
The surname has a strong geographic image: a settlement on the yang side of the Pu River. Puyang Xing gives it a Three Kingdoms historical anchor.
Historical figures
濮阳兴 Puyang Xing
Puyang Xing was an Eastern Wu chancellor in the Three Kingdoms period.