Is there a surname Du in China? How many people have the surname?

Yes. These are all Chinese surnames.

Yes. One of my dad's friends has the surname Du.

There are 150,000 people with surnames in the country. Mainly distributed in:

Jiaozuo City, Shangqiu City, Anyang City, Xinye County, Luoyang City, Qinyang City, Yichuan County of Nanyang City, Yantai City, Qingdao City, Bincheng District, Muping District, Cao County, Linqing City, Anqiu City, Mengyin County, Qingyun County, Xiajin County of Dezhou City, Baoji City, Xianyang City, Shangluo City, Liquan Xunkai County, Shanyang County of Shaanxi Province, Linzhang County, Dingzhou City, Dongguang County, Gaotang County of Hebei Province and other places.

The origin of the surname. 1. Descendants of the Mongolian nationality, in the early days of the Yuan Dynasty, Bilihai came from the Genghis Khan ** clan, and with his outstanding merits, he was named the highest military, political and economic governor of Yidu Luninghai Prefecture in Zhongshu Province (under the jurisdiction of Muping, Rushan, Wendeng, Rongcheng and other areas) - Du Dalu Huachi, who was also in charge of the agricultural affairs of the armies of the state, and had the privilege of hereditary replacement. Bilihai is the ancestor of the Du clan of Muping (now Muping District, Yantai, Shandong).

2. According to the original genealogy of the 23rd year of Guangxu Du Mu Lack of Qichen Sixiu Genealogy, the surname of the ancestor Gongduzi, a native of Qi during the Warring States Period, and a student of Mencius, contains: Mencius Volume 11 No. 5 "Meng Jizi asks Gongduzi" chapter.

China's hundred family surnames are not only 100 surnames, according to the Northern Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Surnames" collected 504 surnames, of which 444 are single surnames and 60 compound surnames, and in the "2019 National Name Report" currently has the most Chinese population and the most commonly used surnames There are 300, and the following 100 surnames can be said to be the most used:

Li Wang, Zhang Liu, Chen Yang, Zhao Huang, Zhou, Wu Xu, Sun Hu, Zhu, Gao Lin, He Guo, Ma Luo, Liang Song, Zheng Xie, Han Tang, Feng Yu, Dong Xiao, Cheng Cao, Yuan Yuan, Deng Xu, Fu Shen, Zeng Peng, Lu Su, Jiang Cai, Jia Ding, Wei Xue, Ye Yan, Yu Pan, Du, Dai Xia, Zhong, Wang Tian, Ren Jiang, Fan, Fang Shi, Yao Tan, Liao, Zou Xiong, Jin Lu, Hao Kong, Bai Cui Kang, Mao Qiu, Qin Jiangshi Gu Hou , Shao Menglong , Wan Duan Cao Qian Tang , Yin Li Yi Chang Wu , Qiao He Lai , Gong Wen .

According to the different geographical location, the distribution of surnames in each province and city is also different, for example, in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hainan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang has the largest number of people with the surname Wang, and in Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan has the largest number of people with the surname Li. There are many people with the surname Ma in Qinghai and Ningxia, and the number of people with the surname Zhang is the most in Shanghai.

The distribution of surnames is due to the migration of Chinese from north to south, and the reasons for the formation of surnames are much more complicated, such as the Yellow Emperor's Ji surname ** in Ji Shui in his clan residential area, Yan Emperor's Jiang surname ** in Jiang Shui, and the origin of the surname Li There are several theories, some people say that it is derived from the surname Yun and the surname Yao, from the descendants of the descendants of the Gaoyang clan of the Emperor Gaoyang after Gaotao and the descendants of the Shun Emperor Yao surname, and some people say that it is from the founder of Taoism, Laozi Li Er, who belongs to the clan with an official position. No matter how the surname changes, it is now only a personal symbol.

According to the 2020 National Filial Piety Name Report released by the Ministry of Public Security, the most populous surname in China is the surname Li, and the surname Liu ranks fourth. The top 10 places are, in order: "Wang", "Li", "Zhang", "Liu", "Chen", "Hunger Shenshou", "Yang", "Huang", "Zhao", "Wu", and "Zhou".

Other information shows:

1. Li surname: 300,000 people account for the Han population in China.

2. Wang's surname: 900,000 people account for the Han population of the country.

3. Zhang: 800,000 people account for the Han population in China.

4. Liu: 600,000 people in China's Han population.