Phạm

American historian Michael Vickery (1998) links the reconstructs the pronunciation of 范 as *buam and *bĭwɐm in Early Middle Chinese (c. 650 CE) with Old Khmer title poñ which was recorded in various 7th-century Cambodian inscriptions.

[1] Later, a Phạm family emerged on the coastal side of the Red River basin in the 10th century.

[2] The term is still preserved in few Austroasiatic languages today, such as Temoq *puang (ritualist) ~ puiyang (shaman, + nominalizing infix -iy-) < pauñ < poñ, suggesting a pre-Buddhist native Mon-Khmer institution of leadership who possessed both shamanistic ritual and political roles.

Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the fourth-most common name, accounting for 5% of the approximately 75 million people.

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