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Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
Lists of East Asian surnames. Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames. List of common Japanese surnames.
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
These top five surnames – Wang, Lee (Li), Zhang, Liu, Chen – alone accounted for more people than Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, [ 13 ] and their total number is around the population of the US, the third most populous country in the world. The next five – Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, and Zhou – were each shared by ...
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee (이) and Park (박). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
Saraiki-language surnames (3 P) Surnames of Saudi Arabian origin (5 P) Surnames of Hindustani origin (3 C, 53 P) Surnames of Indian origin (35 C, 1,053 P) Surnames of Indo-Iranian origin (22 C, 2 P) Surnames of Sinhalese origin (139 P) Surnames of South Asian origin (9 C, 5 P)
Zhao (/ dʒ aʊ /; [1] traditional Chinese: 趙; simplified Chinese: 赵; pinyin: Zhào; Wade–Giles: Chao⁴) is a Chinese-language surname. [note 1] The name is first in the Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor's surname of the Song dynasty (960–1279) when the list was compiled.