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Most Common Chinese Surnames. The 100 Most Common Chinese Family Names The list of Chinese family names or surnames is much shorter than in other cultures. Tan 陈 95 of Chinese population Lim 林 66 of Chinese population Lee李 45 of Chinese population. Wang which means the king is the most common Chinese surname in the world today. Here are the top ten surnames in China along with their meanings.
Tan 陈 95 of Chinese population Lim 林 66 of Chinese population Lee李 45 of Chinese population. For Mandarin speakers in most of China the surname is spelled Wang. In the US there are well over 150000 surnames that are held by more than 100 people. CNN If you stop a random person on the street in China theres a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang Li Zhang Liu or Chen. List Of Common Chinese Surnames Or Family Names. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li each shared by over 100 million people in China with Zhang Liu Chen Yang Huang Zhao Wu and Zhou making up the rest of the ten most common Chinese names.
The surname Cai also means firewood.
Li was the royal last name during the Tang dynasty. Here Is The List Of Common Chinese-Filipino Surnames. While there are over 4000 last names in China today the ancient tradition of the old hundred families is still strong. CNN If you stop a random person on the street in China theres a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang Li Zhang Liu or Chen. When the 1982 Chinese census was first published it did not include a list of top surnames. For Mandarin speakers in most of China the surname is spelled Wang.