How many surnames are there in China 2022?

There are more than 10,000 surnames in China in 2022. Name, as one of the lineages of Chinese culture, is a social and humanistic symbol based on people's blood inheritance. The Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, which came into force on January 1, 2022.

It is clearly stipulated that natural persons have the right to a name.

They have the right to decide, use, change, or permit others to use their names in accordance with law, but must not violate public order and good customs.

This is of great significance for standardizing the registration of citizens' names, inheriting and developing China's name culture.

Ranking of 100 surnames

The top 10 of the latest 100 surnames are, Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Yang, Chen, Zhao, Huang, Wu, and Zhou. First of all, the surname "Wang" still occupies the top spot, and statistics show that the number of people with the surname "Wang" has always been relatively large in recent years. It is worth noting that people with the surname "Wang" generally live in the north, and the number of people with the surname "Li" in the south will be a little larger.

Of course, this is only an overall figure, and there are some exceptions.

The second to fifth places are "Li", "Zhang", "Liu", and "Chen". In fact, the number of surnames in the top five is not too different from the last time it was counted. After all, there will not be any major changes in just one or two years, and the number of people with the surname "Chen" is mainly because of Guangdong Province, if you are from Guangdong, you will definitely find that there must be many friends with the surname "Chen" around you.

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The ranking of China's latest population with surnames, compiled by the Census Office, lists the top 10 surnames with the largest Chinese population and the top 300 surnames with the most population.

Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen - China's five major surnames have a population of nearly 400 million, such a huge number!

1.Wang – 300,000 of China's Han population.

2.The surname Li is 900,000 of the Han population in China.

3.Zhang – 800,000 of China's Han population.

4.Liu – 600,000 of China's Han population.

5.Chen – 400,000 of the Han population in China.

6.Yang – a total of the Han population in China.

7.Zhao – 500,000 of China's Han population.

8.Huang – 800,000 of China's Han population.

9.The surname Zhou is 400,000 of the Han population in China.

10.Wu – 600,000 of China's Han population.

The top 100 surnames with the largest Chinese population: the total population of the top ten is about 100 million.

01 Wang 02 Li 03 Zhang 04 Liu 05 Chen 06 Yang 07 Zhao 08 Huang 09 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 37 Shen 38 Zeng 39 Peng 40 Lü.

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, 79 Jiang, 80 Shi.

81 Gu 82 Hou 83 Shao 84 Meng 85 Long 860,000 87 Duan 88 Cao 89 Qian 90 Tang.

91 Yin 92 Li 93 Yi 94 Chang 95 Wu 96 Qiao 97 He 98 Lai 99 Gong 100 Wen.

In 2022, the first surname in the country is surnamed Li. Ranked by the top 10 surnames of the population:

1. Li surname: 95,300,000 people account for the total Han population in China.

2. Wang: 88,900,000 people account for the Han population in China.

3. Zhang's surname. 84,800,000 of the Han population in China.

4. The surname is Liu. 64,600,000 of the Han population in China.

5. Chen surname: 54,400,000 people account for the Han population in China.

6. Yang surname: 37,000,000 people account for the Han population in China.

7. Zhao: 27,500,000 people account for the Han population in China.

8. Huang surname: 26,800,000 people account for the Han population in China.

9, surname Zhou. 25,400,000 of the Han population in China.

10. Wu surname: 24,600,000 people in China's Han population.

。2. Surnames are divided into single surnames and compound surnames, single surnames refer to a one-word surname, according to statistics, there are 6931 surnames in China. A compound surname is a surname that consists of two or more Chinese characters.

4. The "Dictionary of Chinese Surnames" shows that there are 9,012 two-character surnames, 4,850 three-character surnames, 2,276 four-character surnames, 541 five-character surnames, 142 six-character surnames, 39 seven-character branch brother surnames, 14 eight-character surnames, 7 nine-character surnames, and 1 cross surname.

Chinese Surname Ranking 2022:

1. The surname Li accounts for the entire Han population in China, 300,000 people.

2. The surname Wang accounts for 900,000 of the Han population in China.

3. The surname Zhang accounts for 800,000 of the total Han population in China.

4. The surname Liu accounts for 600,000 of the Han population in China.

5. The surname Chen accounts for 400,000 of the total Han population in China.

6. The surname Yang accounts for ,000,000 of the Han population in China.

7. The surname Zhao accounts for 500,000 of the Han population in China.

8. The surname Huang accounts for 800,000 of the Han population in China.

9. The surname Zhou accounts for 400,000 of the Han population in China.

10. The surname Wu accounts for 600,000 of the total Han population in China.

At present, there are more than 6,000 surnames in use in China

China is the first country in the world to use surnames, with a history of more than 5,000 years. According to the "Dictionary of Chinese Surnames", there are as many as 10,000 surnames recorded by various ethnic groups in Chinese characters from ancient times to the present. In the process of development and evolution, some of these surnames have disappeared in the long river of history, while others have been passed down from generation to generation, gradually forming more than 6,000 surnames currently in use.

1. The Covenant of Kings.

According to the National Name Report released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, "Wang" is the most used surname in China in 2022, accounting for about the Han population. It is worth mentioning that the total population of the five surnames "Wang", "Li", "Zhang", "Liu" and "Chen" accounts for nearly one-third of the total registered population in the country. "Wang" is not only the most used surname for adults, but also one of the most registered surnames for newborns.

In history, there have been 151 prime ministers with the surname Wang, and there are many celebrities.

2. Lu Yue.

According to the National Name Report, the surname "Lu" is the second most common surname in China in 2022 and one of the most used surnames by overseas Chinese. The surname Lu was first derived from the surname "Ying". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the surname Lu was already the surname of the whole country.

By the Tang Dynasty, the Lü family, which had ruled China for 300 years, was very noble as a national surname, and the large-scale southward migration of the Lü surname also began in the Tang Dynasty. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, people from the Lu family in Guangdong and Fujian have successively moved to Taiwan. As a result of the southward migration, the people surnamed Lu began to spread throughout most of the southern part of the Yangtze River and spread overseas.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the people surnamed Li Lu have been widely spread throughout the country.

There are a total of 504 surnames in China in 2023.

Originally, 411 surnames were included, but later added to 504, and now a total of 444 single surnames and 60 compound surnames are collected, for a total of 504 surnames.

2023 Top 10 Names of 100 Family Names:

1. The surname Li accounts for about 95.3 million of China's Han population.

2. The surname Wang accounts for about 88.9 million people in China's Han population.

3. The surname Zhang accounts for about 84.8 million of the Han population in China.

4. The surname Liu accounts for about 64 million people in China's Han population.

5. The surname Chen accounts for about 54.4 million people in China's Han population.

6. The surname Yang accounts for 308% of China's Han population, about 7 million people.

7. The surname Zhao accounts for about 27.5 million of China's Han population.

8. The surname Huang accounts for about 26.8 million of the Han population in China.

9. Zhou and other surnames account for about 25.4 million people in China's Hanzao Yin population.

10. The surname Wu accounts for about 24.6 million of the Han population in China. <>

In 2022, the first surname in the country is surnamed Li. Ranked by the top 10 surnames of the population:

1. Li surname: 95,300,000 people account for the total Han population in China.

2. Wang: 88,900,000 people account for the Han population in China.

3. Zhang: 84,800,000 people account for the Han population in China.

4. Liu: 64,600,000 people account for the Han population in China.

5. Chen surname: 54,400,000 people account for the Han population in China.

6. Yang surname: 37,000,000 people account for the Han population in China.

7. Zhao: 27,500,000 people account for the Han population in China.

8. Huang surname: 26,800,000 people account for the Han population in China.

9. Zhou surname: 25,400,000 people account for the Han population in China.

10. Wu surname: 24,600,000 people in China's Han population.