Last name origins & meanings:
- Chinese:
 from the name of the ancient country known
in China as AnXi, located in present-day Uzbekistan. Traditional
accounts record that the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595
bc) had a grandson named An (the character for ‘peace’) who
moved to the far west to establish AnXi, losing contact with the
Middle Kingdom. When the people of AnXi decided to return to China
during the Han dynasty (206 bc–220 ad), they
adopted their tribal name, An, as their surname. - Korean: there is only one Chinese character for the An surname; it
means ‘peace’. Some sources indicate that there are 109 An clans, but
only six can be documented. All had one common founding ancestor,
named Yi W{ou}n, who migrated from China to Shilla Korea in
ad 807. Yi’s three sons played a major role in resisting
Japanese aggression during the reign of the Shilla King Ky{ou}ngmun
(861–875) and received the surname as a reward from the king. It is
now quite a common Korean surname and can be found throughout the
peninsula.
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