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Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, [1] while the year 2000 United States census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogether [2] and that the number of surnames held by 100 or more Americans (per name) was just over 150,000. [3]
The MPS survey revealed that the top 3 surnames in China have a combined population larger than Indonesia, [39] the world's fourth-most-populous country. The 2019 report by Chinese Ministry of Public Security gives the surnames Wang and Li as the most common ones, with each shared by over 100 million people in China. Each of the most common 23 ...
The surnames are not listed in order of commonality. According to Song dynasty scholar Wang Mingqing (王明清), the first four surnames listed represent the most important families in the empire at the time: [7] 1st: Zhao (趙) is the surname of the Song dynasty emperors. 2nd: Qian (錢) is the surname of the kings of Wuyue.
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Leng (surname) Li (surname 李) Li (surname 利) Li (surname 厲) Li (surname 栗) Li (surname 酈) Lí (surname 黎) Liang (surname) Liao (surname) Lin (surname) Ling (surname) Linghu; List of people with surname Li; List of surnames romanized Li; List of surnames written Feng; Liu; List of people with the Chinese family name Liu; Liǔ; Loi ...
Tu Qihua (屠玘華; 1914–2004), birth-name of the 20th century author Mei Zhi; Tu Youyou (屠呦呦; born 1930), Chinese medical scientist, winner of the 2011 Lasker Award and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Most of the Manchu clans took on their Han surnames after the demise of the Qing dynasty.Several clans took on Han identity as early as in the Ming dynasty period. The surnames were derived from the Chinese meaning of their original clan name, Chinese transliteration of the clan's name, the possessed territories, generation and personal names of the clansmen and also inspired by the surnames ...
As of 2008, Zhuang is the 113th most common surname in mainland China, shared by 1.6 million people. [2] It has been ranked the 24th-most-common surname on Taiwan. [3] Zhuang is a rather uncommon name in the United States. It was ranked 53,245th during the 1990 census and 31,703rd in 2000. Chuang is more common, having been ranked 24,816th in ...