Fei (surname)

Fei
Origin
Word/name	Chinese
Meaning	"fees"
Region of origin	Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)	Translations simplified Chinese: 费; traditional Chinese: 費; pinyin: Fèi

Fei (simplified Chinese: 费; traditional Chinese: 費; pinyin: Fèi) is a traditional Chinese surname. It was 65th in the Hundred Family Surnames.^[2]

This surname has three main sources. Two of them are from the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BC), part of present-day Shandong province. A senior official of the state of Lu was granted a city named Fei, while the son of a certain duke was granted a county named Fei. Both of these place names were adopted by descendants as surnames. A third source of the name is Fei Zhong, a high minister of the Yin Dynasty (1401–1122 BC).^[3]

^ 1990 Census Name Files
^ K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.
^ http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Fei-civil-war.ashx ^{[user-generated source]}

[1] 1990 Census Name Files

[KS-2] K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.

[3] ttp://www.ancestry.com/facts/Fei-civil-war.ashx ^{[user-generated source]}

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