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Dy is a surname in Cambodia and the Philippines.




Origins


As an English surname, Dy is a variant spelling of Dye, which may have come from the Greek masculine given name Dionysios or its feminine form Dionysia. One early record of the surname Dy is in the 1379 poll tax returns of Yorkshire. Another known origin of the surname is from the Chinese Filipino community, where Dy transcribes a Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname spelled Lǐ (李) in the Hanyu Pinyin transcription of its Mandarin pronunciation. There is also a Khmer surname transcribed as Dy (ឌី, Di).




Statistics


The 2010 United States Census found 1,932 people with the surname Dy, making it the 15,232nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,422 (18,077th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, slightly less than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and about five percent as White.




People


Tomas Dy-Liacco (1920–2019), Filipino-American electrical engineer
Dy Proeung (ឌី ព្រឿង; born 1930s), Cambodian architect
Pauline Dy Phon (ឌី ផុន; 1933–2010), Cambodian botanist at the National Museum of Natural History in France
Dy Saveth (ឌី សាវ៉េត; born 1944), Cambodian actress and the first Miss Cambodia (1959)
Benjamin Dy (1952–2013), Filipino politician
Luane Dy (born 1986), Filipino television personality
Denise Dy (born 1989), Filipino tennis player
Jason Dy (born 1990), Filipino singer
Rolando Dy (born 1990), Filipino mixed martial artist
Kim Kianna Dy (born 1995), Filipino volleyball player
Philbert Dy, Filipino film critic




See also


Di (surname)
DY (rapper)




References

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