"somewhat from the distribution of names among all Han Chinese. According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Taiwanese Ministry of the Interior's Department of Population in February 2005, the ten most common surnames in Taiwan are Chen (陳), Lin (林), Huang (黃), Chang (張), Li (李), Wang (王), Wu (吳), Liu (劉), Tsai (蔡), and Yang (楊). Taiwanese surnames include some local variants like Tu (塗) which do not even appear among the ""Hundred Family Surnames"". However, names in Taiwan show less diversity than China as a whole: the top ten comprise 52.63% of the Taiwanese"
"for various reasons, this has been outweighed by old names disappearing. The most significant factor affecting the surname frequency is other ethnic groups identifying as Han and adopting Han names. In recent centuries some two-character surnames have often dropped a character. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, moreover, some surnames have been graphically simplified. Although there are thousands of Chinese family names, the 100 most common, which together make up less than 5% of those in existence, are shared by 85% of the population. The three most common surnames in Mainland China are Li, Wang and Zhang,"
"Wang (surname) Wang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames ' (""Wáng"") and ' (""Wāng""). Wáng () was listed 8th on the famous Song Dynasty list of the ""Hundred Family Surnames""; it is the most common surname in mainland China. Wāng () was 104th of the ""Hundred Family Surnames""; it is the 58th-most-common surname in mainland China. is also romanized as Wong in Hong Kong, Macau, Cantonese, Hakka and Hainanese; Waan or Waon in Shanghainese; Ong or Bong in Hokkien; Heng in Teochew; Uōng in Gan; Vang, Vaj, or Vaaj in Hmong; Vương or Vong in Vietnamese; Wang ()"
"to erode the previous sociological uses of the Chinese surnames. According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on 24 April 2007, the ten most common surnames in mainland China are Wang (王), Li (李), Zhang (张), Liu (刘), Chen (陈), Yang (杨), Huang (黄), Zhao (赵), Wu (吴), and Zhou (周). The same names were also found (in slightly different orders) by a fairly comprehensive survey of 296 million people in 2006, and by the 1982 census. A commonly cited fact from the 1990 edition of the ""Guinness Book of World"
"no official tally of ""Wongs"" inside China or Taiwan, Wong is the 6th most common Chinese name in Singapore, the 3rd most common Chinese name in America, and the most common Chinese name in Ontario, Canada. Although recent immigration from central and northern China has caused the pinyin romanizations ""Wang"" and ""Huang"" to become more common, ""Wong"" is still by far the most common version in all three locations, just as ""Lee"" remains more common than ""Li"". The history of the romanization ""Wong"" begins Bianjing (汴京) during the Song dynasty (a noticeable empress Empress Wang (Taizu). Some historical information showed"
"the 100 most common Chinese surnames in mainland China and on Taiwan based on household registrations in 2007, although the Ministry of Public Security in 2008 listed is as the 87th most common surname in China based on its database of National Identity Cards, shared by at least 2.4 million Chinese citizens. It was the 94th-most-common surname during the 1982 Chinese census. ""Chang"" is a common Chinese surname in the United States, ranked 687th among all surnames during the 1990 census and 424th during the year 2000 census. It was ranked 11th among all surnames held by Asians and Pacific"
"Middle German ""wang""/ Middle Dutch ""waenge"", which is literally ""cheek"". However, in southern German, its meaning, ""grassy slope"" or ""field of grass"", is similar to the Scandinavian surname. Wang (surname) Wang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames ' (""Wáng"") and ' (""Wāng""). Wáng () was listed 8th on the famous Song Dynasty list of the ""Hundred Family Surnames""; it is the most common surname in mainland China. Wāng () was 104th of the ""Hundred Family Surnames""; it is the 58th-most-common surname in mainland China. is also romanized as Wong in Hong Kong, Macau, Cantonese, Hakka and Hainanese; Waan"
"most common surname among people of Asian-Pacific Islander descent and the 519th most common surname overall, up from 2,084th in 1990. Li is the 3rd most common Chinese surname in the Canadian province of Ontario. Li (surname) Li is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization (spelled Lí, Lǐ, or Lì when pinyin tone diacritics are used) of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Li 李 is by far the most common among them, shared by 93 million people in China, and more than 100 million worldwide. It is the second most common Chinese surname behind"
"Chang (surname) Chang () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (""Cháng""). It was listed 80th among the Song-era ""Hundred Family Surnames"". ""Chang"" is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames written Zhang in pinyin: one extremely common and written in traditional characters and in simplified characters, and another quite rare and written as in both systems. There is also a rare case of in Hong Kong written as Chang as well. For full details on them, see the ""Zhang"" and ""Zheng"" article. In Macao, this is the spelling of the surname ""Zeng"" . ""Chang"" is also a"
"which make up 7.9%, 7.4% and 7.1% respectively. Together they number close to 300 million and are easily the most common surnames in the world. In Chinese, the phrase ""third son of Zhang, fourth son of Li"" () is used to say ""just anybody"". In a 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of a random sample of 174,900 persons, with over 500 other names accounting for the remaining 4%. In a different study (1987), which combined data from Taiwan and China (sample size of 570,000 persons), the top 19 names covered 55.6%, and the top"
"descendants were given the family name Fang. Ji Yuan is considered as another forefather of the Fangs. Ji was a general of Zhou Xuan Wang, and was known for his contributions in conquering the north and the south. Since his nickname was Fang Shu, the king awarded him the family name of Fang. Fang (surname) Fang () is the 47th most prevalent Chinese surname. In Chinese, ""Fāng"" (), means ""square"" or ""four-sided"". ""Fāng"" () is pronounced ""Fong"" in Cantonese, ""Hong"" or ""Png"" in some Min Nan dialects and ""Png"" or ""Pung"" in Teochew. Some more uncommon surnames that are also"
"in Korean; and Ō or Oh in Japanese. Wáng is one of the most common surnames in the world and was listed by the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System as the most common surname in mainland China in April 2007, with 92.88 million bearers and comprising 7.25% of the general population. It was the 6th most common surname in Taiwan in 2005, comprising 4.12% of the general population. Wāng was listed by the NCIIS survey as the 58th most common surname in mainland China and by Yang Xuxian as the 76th most common surname on Taiwan."
"of the population of the Republic of China. 章 was unlisted among the top 100 in either location. Among the Chinese diaspora, the name remains common but takes on various romanizations. ""Chong"" is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans; ""Chang"" is the 6th-most-common surname among Chinese Americans; and ""Zhang"" was the 7th-most-common particularly Chinese surname (i.e., excluding ethnically diverse surnames such as ""Lee"") found in a 2010 survey of Ontario's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients. combines the Chinese characters (""gōng"", ""bow"") and ( , ""cháng"", ""long"" or ""wide""). It originally meant ""to open up"" or ""to spread"""
"of the Tang dynasty, Li was bestowed upon or adopted by numerous people, including many foreigners, during the period, and became one of the most common Chinese surnames. Li 李 is one of the most common surnames in China and the world, shared by more than 93 million people in China, or about 7.4% of the Chinese population. Worldwide, more than 100 million people bear the surname. It was formerly thought to be the most common surname in China, but a 2013 analysis of the names of 1.33 billion Chinese citizens has concluded that Li is the second most common"
"Fang (surname) Fang () is the 47th most prevalent Chinese surname. In Chinese, ""Fāng"" (), means ""square"" or ""four-sided"". ""Fāng"" () is pronounced ""Fong"" in Cantonese, ""Hong"" or ""Png"" in some Min Nan dialects and ""Png"" or ""Pung"" in Teochew. Some more uncommon surnames that are also conventionally simplified to ""Fang"" in English are ""Fáng"" (), meaning ""house"", and ""Fāng"" (), meaning ""fragrant"". During Emperor Huang Di's reign, a descendant called Yu Lei was awarded the land of Fang (north west of Nanyu) for his contributions in defeating a foreign tribe. He was thus known as Fang Lei, and his"
"Ong is the 5th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans and Wong the 6th. There were 88,000 Wongs during the year 2000 US Census, making it the 7th-most-common surname among Asians and Pacific Islanders and the 279th most common surname overall. The 63,800 Wangs ranked 10th and 440th, respectively. Wang (Hangul: ) is a fairly rare surname in South Korea. The year 2000 South Korean Census listed only 23,447 Wangs. is the Chinese word for ""king"". William Baxter and Laurent Sagart reconstructed the Old Chinese form of Wáng as """" and the Middle Chinese as ""hjwang"". The modern bearers of the name"
"of China in the 13th century caused widespread depopulation in northern China. Li, being overrepresented in the north, was hit especially hard. In the Ming dynasty following the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the Li-surnamed population had declined to 5.1 million, constituting 5.5% of the total population. It fell behind Zhang to become the third most common surname of the time. Many of the Lis had migrated to South China by this period. Li (surname 李) Li () is the second most common surname in China, behind only Wang. It is one of the most common surnames in the world, shared by"
"at birth are Zhang are also included on this list. Zhang (surname) Zhang () is the pinyin romanization of the very common Chinese surname written ' in simplified characters and ' in traditional characters. It is spoken in the first tone: ""Zhāng"". It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding to the surname 'Archer' in English for example. Chang is the Wade-Giles romanization; Cheung is commonly used in Hong Kong as romanization. It is also the pinyin romanization of the less-common surnames ' (""Zhāng"") and ' (""Zhǎng""). () and are also commonly romanized as Chang in"
"Jiang (surname) Jiang can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames: Jiang (, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is the 74th most common surname in China (2007), and the 25th most common surname in Taiwan (2010). After Boyi helped Yu the Great bring flood control to the early Chinese, Yu's son and successor Qi of Xia offered Boyi's son, Xuanzhong, the position of Lord"
"""other"" or ""unreported"" in the census). (고무래 정 ""gomurae jeong""; 장정 정 ""jangjeong jeong"") is the second-most common of the three Jeong names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name Ding. In the 2000 census, 187,975 people and 58,431 households had this family name. These people identified with 23 different ""bon-gwan"", including: (한도 정 ""hando jeong""; 길 정 ""gil jeong"") is the least-common of the three Jeong names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name Cheng. In the 2000 census, 32,519 people and 10,220 households had this family name. These people identified"
"the name of their lord. Chinese names are a well-studied example of surname extinction: there are currently only about 3,100 surnames in use in China, compared with close to 12,000 recorded in the past, with 22% of the population sharing the names Li, Wang and Zhang (numbering close to 300 million people), and the top 200 names covering 96% of the population. Names have changed or become extinct for various reasons such as people taking the names of their rulers, orthographic simplifications, taboos against using characters from an emperor's name, among others. While family name lines dying out may be"
"common surname, being shared by 9.9% of the population. Next are Lĭ (), Zhāng (/) and Liú (/). In the south, Chén (/) is the most common, being shared by 10.6% of the population. Next are Lĭ (李), Huáng (/), Lín () and Zhāng (张/張). Around the major crossing points of the Yangtze River, the most common surname is Lĭ (李), taking up 7.7%, followed by Wáng (王), Zhāng (张/張), Chan/Chén (陈/陳) and Liú (刘/劉). A 1987 study showed over 450 family names in common use in Beijing, but there were fewer than 300 family names in Fujian. A study"
"Li (surname) Li is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization (spelled Lí, Lǐ, or Lì when pinyin tone diacritics are used) of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different characters in Chinese. Li 李 is by far the most common among them, shared by 93 million people in China, and more than 100 million worldwide. It is the second most common Chinese surname behind Wang and the most common surname in Canada . Languages using the Latin alphabet do not distinguish among the different Chinese surnames, rendering them all as Li. In the United States, Li is the 14th"
"1.The descendants of the Three Emperors of ancient China. 2.The descendents of Duke Dai of Song's prince named Huangfu Chongshi 皇父充石. 3.An ancient book Xing Kao 姓考 says Zheng Kingdom has a royal clan named Huang clan 皇氏. Huang is the 7th most common surname in China, and the 3rd most common surname in Taiwan. It is also one of the common surnames among Zhuang People, one of the ethnic minorities in China. 19% of People from China with Surname Huang live in Guangdong Province. The population of people named Huang in China was approximately 29 million and in Taiwan"
"Zhang (surname) Zhang () is the pinyin romanization of the very common Chinese surname written ' in simplified characters and ' in traditional characters. It is spoken in the first tone: ""Zhāng"". It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding to the surname 'Archer' in English for example. Chang is the Wade-Giles romanization; Cheung is commonly used in Hong Kong as romanization. It is also the pinyin romanization of the less-common surnames ' (""Zhāng"") and ' (""Zhǎng""). () and are also commonly romanized as Chang in Taiwan and among the Chinese diaspora using the older Wade-Giles"
"kingdom's name, ""Jiang"", as their clan name. Gong (, rank 192 in China), also transcribed as Kung or Kong from Cantonese (Hong Kong and Macao), is the 99th most prevalent Chinese surname listed in the ancient Song Dynasty classic text, ""Hundred Family Surnames"". In Chinese writing, the character ""龚"" is composed of the two characters 龙 (upper character, meaning dragon) and 共 (lower character, meaning altogether, common, general, shared, or together). As of 2002, there are around 1.5 million people with the Gong 龚 surname in China, representing 0.2% of its population. They are most commonly found along the Yangtze"
"Tan (surname) Tan, the pinyin romanization of 譚, is the 67th most common surname in China. The surname Chen ((陈/陳)) based on the various Min dialects is also Romanized as ""Tan"". Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname: A study by geneticist Yuan Yida has found that people with either of the two Tan surnames are especially concentrated in Hunan Province which would tend to support these accounts. This does not mean that they are the most common surnames in that province. ""Tan"" is the Chinese character's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin Chinese. It is pronounced and romanised"
"differently in different languages and dialects. Tan (surname) Tan, the pinyin romanization of 譚, is the 67th most common surname in China. The surname Chen ((陈/陳)) based on the various Min dialects is also Romanized as ""Tan"". Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname: A study by geneticist Yuan Yida has found that people with either of the two Tan surnames are especially concentrated in Hunan Province which would tend to support these accounts. This does not mean that they are the most common surnames in that province. ""Tan"" is the Chinese character's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin"
"Chai, 2.8% as Che, and 1.7% as Chea. (성씨 채 ""songssi chae"") is by far the most common of the three Chae surnames. This character is also used to write the Chinese family name pronounced Cài () in Mandarin. The 2000 Census found 114,069 people and 35,099 households with this surname, divided among seventeen reported ""bon-gwan"" (clan hometowns, not necessarily the actual residence of clan members), as well as eighty-six people whose ""bon-gwan"" was not stated: (나물 채 ""namul chae"") is the second-most common of the three Chae surnames. The 2000 Census found 3,516 people and 1,067 households with this"
"written Trang; in Korean, the surname formerly written as in Hanja is now written and romanized as Jang; in Japanese, the surname written in Kanji is romanized Shō. In Thai, it is written as จึง (RTGS: ). As of 2008, Zhuang is the 113th most common surname in mainland China, shared by 1.6 million people. It has been ranked the 24th-most-common surname on Taiwan. Zhuang is a rather uncommon name in the United States. It was ranked 53,245th during the 1990 census and 31,703rd during the year 2000 one. Chuang is more common, having been ranked 24,816th in 1990 and"
"4,343rd most common surname during the year 2000 US census. Ong (surname) Ong is a Hokkien romanization of several Chinese surnames: (""Wáng"" in Hanyu Pinyin), (also ""Wāng""), (traditional) or (simplified; ""Huáng""); and (Weng). Ong or Onge is also a surname of English origin, with earliest known records found in Western Suffolk taxation records from ca. 1280 AD. Under the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system, 王 but not the other names includes a circumflex over its vowel: Ông. However, this is often omitted in practice. In Singapore, Ong is the fifth-most-common surname among Chinese residents. In the United States, Ong was the 6,682nd"
"as Shandong, Gansu, Zhejiang, and Fujian. Zhuang (surname) Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified character and in traditional character. It is spoken in the first tone: ""Zhuāng"". Zhuang is listed 323rd in the Song dynasty classic text ""Hundred Family Surnames"". As of 2008, it is the 113th most common surname in China, shared by 1.6 million people. Zhuang is romanized as Chuang in the Wade-Giles system still sometimes employed on Taiwan and among the Chinese diaspora. It is romanized Chong in Cantonese; Chng and Ching in Min Nan. In Vietnamese, the surname formerly written"
"Gonnet, Gonout, Gonoude, and the Italian Ughini, this is a name which is ultimately of pre 7th century German origins. It was to be found in almost every European country by the 12th century. Gong (), also transcribed as Kong or Jiang, is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population (~3.3 millions). It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is the 74th most common surname in China (2007), and the 25th most common surname in Taiwan (2010). The last name Gong ()"