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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : unusual for a Chinese surname, this name is composed of two characters. Situ was the title of an official post, the minister of education, during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc). Descendants of an important situ of this period adopted his official title as their surname.

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