jūn
The Jun surname is currently uncommon and pronounced jūn. It is distributed in Wuqing of Tianjin, Huanghua and other places in Hebei, as well as parts of Shandong, Shanxi, and Sichuan. It is found among the Han, She, and Bai peoples.
The Jun surname mainly derives from the Ji and Mi surnames. The recorded lines include descendants of officials administering gongyi adopting an official title as their surname, people in the Warring States period adopting the title “Jun,” and descendants of tribal leaders called junzhang adopting that title as their surname.
Reference: 君姓起源、君姓起名、君姓名人明星大全、百家姓排名
During the Spring and Autumn period, Chu Shi Shengzi, a senior official of Wei, was originally named Ji Bi and used “Junshi” as an honorific title. Some of his descendants adopted this ancestral honorific as their surname and became known as the Jun surname.
Reference: 君姓起源、君姓起名、君姓名人明星大全、百家姓排名
The Mongol Yihejun clan was also called the Yueluoqin clan and traditionally lived in Keshenketeng. From the mid-Qing period onward, its Sinicized surname was usually Meng, though some adopted Jun.
The Surname Textual Research, citing the Baihu Tong, records that “Yao had a teacher named Jun Chou,” and records a Jun surname in Shache of the Western Regions. It also lists Jun Chen and Jun Ya of the Zhou period and Jun Zhu of the Ming period.
The Jun surname has Linzi as its commandery of prominence, identified as Qi Commandery. Its hall name is Linzi Hall, also called Qi Commandery Hall.
The current surname entry gives the pronunciation as jūn, while the passage on the gongyi and junling origin separately gives “Jun” as jùn; both readings appear in the records.
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