How many people are in our country with surnames?

The surname Wang is the largest surname in China, with 10,000 people, accounting for the total population of the country. The second largest surname in China is "Li", with 10,000 people, accounting for the total population of the country; The third place is surnamed Zhang, with 10,000 people, accounting for the total population of the country.

There are 10 surnames with a total surname population of more than 20 million, in order: Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, and Zhou; There are 12 surnames with a population of less than 20 million and more than 10 million people, in order: Xu, Sun, Ma, Zhu, Hu, Guo, He, Gao, Lin, Luo, Zheng, and Liang.

The top 100 surnames are: Xie, Song, Tang, Xu, Han, Feng, Deng, Cao, Peng, Zeng, Xiao, Tian, Dong, Yuan, Pan, Yu, Jiang, Cai, Yu, Du, Ye, Cheng, Su, Wei, Lu, Ding, Ren, Shen, Yao, Lu, Jiang, Cui, Zhong, Tan, Lu, Wang, Fan, Jin, Shi, Liao, Jia, Xia, Wei, Fu, Fang, Bai, Zou, Meng, Xiong, Qin, Qiu, Jiang, Yin, Xue, Yan, Duan, Lei, Hou, Long, Shi, Tao, Li, He, Gu, Mao, Hao, Gong, Shao, Wan, Qian, Yan, Qin, Wu, Dai, Mo, Kong, Xiang, Tang.

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Analysis: The surname Li is the most populous surname in the middle reaches of the country, with a wide distribution, accounting for about the national Han population. In terms of regions, the proportion of the surname Li in the northern provinces is relatively high, generally more than 8%, while the proportion in the southern provinces is generally less than 8%, especially in the southeastern coastal provinces, the proportion is only about 4%.

How many surnames do Chinese have?

The "Hundred Family Surnames" written in the Song Dynasty collected 442 single surnames, 61 compound surnames, and 503 surnames.

In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shiyuan's "Surname Engraved" collected a total of 3,625 surnames and compound surnames.

In 1978, the relevant departments conducted a survey on the use of Chinese character surnames in the seven major cities through the household registration and post and telecommunications departments, and the total number of surnames obtained was 2,587. Among them, 2,250 are in Beijing, 1,640 in Shanghai, 1,270 in Shenyang, 1,574 in Wuhan, 1,245 in Chongqing, 1,631 in Chengdu and 1,802 in Guangzhou.

In 1984, the People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House published the "Compilation of Chinese Surnames" (edited by Yan Fuqing and others), which collected a total of 5,730 single and compound surnames. However, Taiwanese scholar Wang Sucun's "Zhonghua Surname House" has collected as many as 7,720 ancient and modern Chinese character surnames. But that's not the exact number.

According to the "Dictionary of Chinese Surnames" published by Beijing Education Science Publishing House in 1996 (edited by Yuan Yida and Du Ruofu), there are a total of 11,969 surnames recorded by various ethnic groups in ancient and modern China, including 5,327 single-character surnames, 4,329 double-character surnames, 1,615 three-character surnames, 569 four-character surnames, 96 five-character surnames, 22 six-character surnames, 7 seven-character surnames, 3 eight-character surnames, and 1 nine-character surname, in addition to 3,136 surnames with different translations and variant characters. This is the most recent count of the number of surnames in China to date.

At present, the largest number of people in our country is surnamed Bichang Lianwang, and the number of people is about 100 million.

The surname Wang is not the most populous surname in our country. According to the Sixth National Population Census, the total population of the country is 1.37 billion (1370536875), of which the surname Li accounts for 95,300,000 of the Han population in China.

Now the surname ranking of the Chinese population is:

1 Li, 2 Wang, 3 Zhang, 4 Liu, 5 Chen, 6 Yang, 7 Zhao, 8 Huang, 9 Zhou, 10 Wu, 11 Xu, 12 Sun, 13 Hu, 14 Zhu, 15 Gao, 16 Lin, 17 He, 18 Guo, 19 Ma, 20 Luo, 21 Liang, 22 Song, 23 Zheng, 24 Xie, 25 Han, 26 Tang, 27 Feng, 28 Yu, 29 Dong, 30 Xiao, 31 Cheng, 32 Cao, 33 Yuan, 34 Deng, 35 Xu, 36 Fu Fanyu, 37 Shen, 38 Zeng, 39 Peng, 40 Lu, 41 Su, 42 Lu, 43 Jiang, 44 Cai, 45 Jia, 46 Ding, 47 Wei, 48 Xue, 49 Ye, 50 Yan, 51 Yu, 52 Pan, 53 Du, 54 Dai, 55 Xia, 56 Zhong, 57 Wang, 58 Tian, 59 Ren, 60 Jiang, 61 Fan, 62 Fang, 63 Shi, 64 Yao, 65 Tan, 66 Liao, 67 Zou, 68 Xiong, 69 Jin, 70 Lu, 71 Hao, 72 Kong, 73 Bai, 74 Cui, 75 Kang, 76 Mao, 77 Qiu, 78 Qin.