where does the last name pham come from
Phạm Phạm is the Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chinese character 范.[1] The same character is used to write the Chinese surname Fan and the Korean surname Beom (범). As with other East Asian surnames derived from Chinese, it does not necessarily imply familial relations with those sharing the same surname. The surname Phạm means "iron" in Vietnamese.
Chew (surname) Some would argue that it is an Hokkien version of Zhou, and that the Cantonese version is Chow. The list of notable Chinese people with Chew as a surname mostly consists of people from Malaysia or Singapore, where Hokkien is the main Chinese dialect. The British colonialists were responsible for the transliteration from the Chinese. Chew is also a Scottish and Somerset, England, surname.