Kan surname, from Jiang surname, was named after the fief. Kan surname is one of China surnames. In 20 17, the population ranked 294th among hundreds of surnames, with a population of about 250,000.
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Stop. According to Shang You Ji, Kan was a descendant of Kan Zhi, a scholar of Qi Guoqing in the Spring and Autumn Period, and his noble family came from Historical Records. According to the research of surnames, Kan was a place name of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. His hometown is Wangnan Lake in the southwest of Wenshang County, Shandong Province today, which is also called "Wenshang Qitan" in ancient books, not referring to Wenshang in the southwest of Shandong Province, but to Xinwen area in the hinterland of Qilu.