The 400 Most Surnames in China published on 20 13 just lists 400 surnames of more than 80,000 people, most of which come from various sources, while a few surnames such as Zhi Zhi come from a single source.
According to the latest report of People's Daily Online, according to the data of the sixth national census on 20 10, the top ten are Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Zhao, Huang, Zhou and Wu respectively.
Yuan Yida, a researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collected statistical samples from the documents collected since the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties according to the internationally recognized research method of surname frequency, and made statistics according to the names, places of origin or residence, working areas and places indicated in the documents, so as to calculate the expected distribution frequency of surnames in the country at that time.
The order of 100 surnames before the Ming Dynasty is as follows:
Wang, Zhang, Li, Chen, Liu, Yang, Wu, Huang, Zhou, Xu,
Zhu, Zhao, Hu, Sun, Zheng, He, Guo, Shen, Gao, Lin,
Xie, Ma, Ye, Luo, Feng, Xu, Xiao, Wang, Han, Cao,
Pan, Lu, Yao, Cheng, Yu, Yuan, Song, Qian, Lu, Lu,
Tang, Peng, Jiang, Zeng, Deng, Cai, Gu, Wei, Fang, Fu,
Jin, Fan, Liang, Xia, Dong, Zhang, Yu, Ding, Jiang, Du,
Zou, Zhong, Su, Yan, Dai, Cui, Tian, Mao, Shi, Ren,
Gong, Tao, Shao, Xue, Qiu, Xiong, Hou, Tan, Jiang, Jia,
Shi, Qin, Shi, Liao, Yu, Kong, Yin, Li, Meng, Duan,
Tang, Bai, Zhan, Nie, Yi, Hong, Sheng, Ni, Kang, Wen