Eurasians in Singapore

The community of Eurasians in Singapore is descended from Europeans who intermarried with local Asians. Their ancestry can be traced to emigrants of countries that span the length and breadth of Europe, although Eurasian migrants to Singapore in the 19th century came largely from other colonies in Asia, such as British Malaya in particular Malacca and Penang; Chittagong and Goa in India; the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. They form a distinct group from more recent immigrants and expatriates of European descent.

The family names in the community come from Armenian (the Galistan, the Dragon and the Avakian families), British (the Batchelor, the Branson, the Caine, the College, the Edwards, the Goodenough, the Hogan, the Marsh, the Philips, the Reeves, the Hale and the Smith families), Danish (the Lange, the Olsen, the Rasmussen and the Jensen families), Dutch (the Marbeck, the Ess (formerly, "van Es"), the Hoeden (or "van Hoeden"), the Van Cuylenberg, the De Bakker, the Westenra, the Ten Haken, the Feenstra, the Gronloh and the Vanderstraaten families), French (the Longue, the Poulier and the Cherbonnier families), German (the Hochstadt, the Oehlers, the Keller, the Kaiser and the Roelcke families), Italian (the Marini, the De Luca, the Esposito, the Angelucci and the Scarpa families), Portuguese (the Aeria, the Coelho, the Carvalho, the Conceicao, the de Almeida, the de Rosa, the de Silva, the de Souza (or d'Souza), the de Cruz (or D'Cruz), the de Cotta, the Nonis (or "Nunis"), the Gomez (or "Gomes"), the Lazaroo, the Monteiro, the Oliveiro, the Palmer, the Pereira, the Pestana, the Rodrigues and the Theseira families), Spanish (the Castellano, the Fernandez, the Lopez, the Zuniga, the Ferdinands and the Hernandez families) and Swedish (the Holmberg, the Johansson and the Lindblom families) backgrounds.