Yu / Yu
The contemporary Yu surname population is about 580,000, approximately 0.047% of China's population, ranking 184th among surnames. Hunan and Hubei together account for about 53%, with Hunan alone accounting for about 30%.
One Yu lineage is traced to the Ji surname: descendants of Prince Yumi of Zheng first established the Yu (渝) clan, from which the Yu (喻) and Yu (俞) clans separated during Emperor Jing's reign because of a naming taboo; the three are thus described as sharing an ancestor.
Hall names appearing in Yu genealogies include Jiangxia Hall, Anzhou Hall, Dianxian Hall, Tingyi Hall, Zhiben Hall, Zhengben Hall, Dunben Hall, and Qiantang Hall. Different regions and branches used different hall names.
Yu Tao, the founding migrant ancestor of the Ningxiang branch, moved from Qiantang in Zhejiang to Nancun in Ningxiang, Hunan, during the Jianlong era of the Northern Song. His grandsons Yu Ziqiu and Yu Zihui later settled separately in Longgao and Nan'an.
Reference: 喻氏家谱网 提供8个省区市的73部喻氏家谱、喻氏族谱
The Anhua branch genealogy records that Yu Tao moved from Huangjiang in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, to Ningxiang, Hunan, in the seventh year of the Kaibao era of the Northern Song. His fourteenth-generation descendant Yu Guozhang moved to Anhua around the transition from the Yuan to the Ming dynasty.
The genealogy catalog lists 73 Yu clan genealogies across eight provincial-level areas: 32 from Hunan, 16 from Hubei, eight from Zhejiang, seven from Jiangxi, three from Anhui, two from Jiangsu, one from Sichuan, and four from overseas.
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