Songco

English Proper noun en barangay city/Borongan p/Eastern Samar c/Philippines. VIII Eastern Samar Borongan Tagalog Etymology A Hispanicized Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien. The second element nan-hbl ko is from Hokkien 哥 elder brother, an honorific used in addressing a senior male. The first element Song probably reflects a Hokkien pronunciation of a Chinese surname or personal name, possibly 宋 Song, though the exact Chinese characters are uncertain. The surname belongs to the class of older Chinese Filipino surnames formed from transliterated Hokkien names written in Spanish orthography and adopted as hereditary surnames during the Spanish colonial period. Pronunciation Proper noun + a Chinese Filipino surname of Hokkien origin Statistics 1,245th 8,120 References Wickberg Edgar The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850–1898 1965 Yale University Press