How many people are surnamed Ai in China, and how many surnames are there in my country?

The total population of the surname Ai in the country is 690,000, and Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan are the top 3, accounting for about 36% of the total number of people with the surname Ai

Nowadays, the surname Ai is widely distributed across the country, especially in Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Hebei, Shaanxi and other provinces. At present, the population with the surname Ai ranks 259th among all surnames in the country.

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1. The surname was changed to a family name in Sinicization

Ethnic minorities such as Ergiz, Xibe, Bai, Yao, Tujia, Miao, Dong, Buyi, Gelao, Hani, Lahu, Wa, Dai, Brown, Zhuang, and Korean also have Ai as their surname.

2. The origin of the surname Ai of foreign nationalities

From the middle to late Yuan Dynasty to the Shun period, he served as a Middle Eastern Persian Hui ethnic group in Yuzhou (now Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province), and Ai was later surnamed Ai.

For example, in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty (around 1050), Jews who came to China to do business and later settled in the national capital Bianliang (now Kaifeng) and other places have the surname Ai.

3. Change your surname and name

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Liang (the uncle of Confucius), the 6th grandson of Sima Kong's father Jia of the Song Kingdom, lived in seclusion in the Ailing Tomb of Qi (now southeast of Taishan District, Tai'an City, Shandong Province), changed his surname and changed his name, and took the name Ai Kong after the name of the place of seclusion, and named Ai Kong after the original surname Kong. Later generations took Ai as his surname.

Migratory distribution

The history of the surname Ai can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and the people were originally distributed in the southeast of present-day Tai'an, Shandong Province and the Xiushui area of Jiangxi. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the Ai clan migrated to Lintao, Tianshui, Henan, Pingyu, Luoyang and other places in present-day Gansu, and gradually became the local wang clan.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, under the impetus of the Sinicization reform, the Ai clan people who changed their surnames from the Jin clan migrated to Luoyang (now Henan), the new capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and merged with the local people surnamed Ai, making the Ai family in Henan County more prosperous and prosperous. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the people surnamed Ai migrated south to escape the war, settled in the southern provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, etc., and some migrated to present-day Fujian.

surname, ** to ancestors; clan is the criterion for distinguishing future generations. The generation of surnames is changed from a clan society to a blood relationship.

An important embodiment of sparseness. The surname is an important symbol of Chinese heritage.

The 50 surnames with royal blood in China are: Chen, Huang, Zhao, Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Zhu, Zhang, Wang, Li, Liu, Ma,

Hu, Guo, Lin, He, Gao, Liang, Zheng, Luo, Song, Xie, Tang, Han, Cao, Xu, Deng, Xiao, Feng, Zeng, Cheng, Cai, Peng

Pan, Yuan, Yu, Dong, Yu, Su, Ye, Lü, Wei, Jiang, Tian, Du, Ding, Shen, Jiang.

There are 23,813 surnames in China, and a total of 6,150 surnames are currently in use.