Oei, an ethnic Chinese surname based on the Zhangzhou pronunciation of Huang and usually used in Indonesia (cf. Ooi, Wee)

Each campaign pored over the voter registry, divvying up the population by party, by voting history and by ethnic surname.

In Pashto and Persian, it means 'saint' or 'the saint of saints' and can be used as a title, a name, or an ethnic surname.

Concordantly, Dastgir is usually encountered as an ethnic surname passed down through generations that had some link to a saint.

Examples of ethnic surnames are Fleming, Galbraith, and Scott.

In any event, Mr. Perot's references to ethnic surnames have popped up in other speeches in the closing days of the campaign.

They own the state franchise for Voter Contact Services, a national company that combines registration lists, phone lists, census data - even a dictionary of ethnic surnames - to create custom-made mailing labels and computer discs for clients.

We are all products of that decision from which we retain only ethnic surnames," and Hu Shih's graceful wave included everyone.

Cua, a form of Cai (surname), an ethnic Chinese surname.

Kwong, is rare in the Chinese Han ethnic surnames.