How many surnames does China have?

What's China Yi's surname? Statistical data in different periods are different:

Ying Shao's "Custom Pass" in Han Dynasty contains nearly 500 books. JFD:L()$#_

Collection of Yuan He Xing Bian by Lin Bao in Tang Dynasty 1232.

Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi in Song Dynasty? 6? 1 There is 1745 in the team profile. @322 1a3ds also K:JFD:L()$#

In Yuan Dynasty, there were 3736 articles on Ma Duan's general examination. ioK:JFD:L()

In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Qi collected 4657 articles in the General Examination of Continued Documents.

Chen Lifu's newly compiled China Surname Calligraphy Dictionary contains 10 129 surnames, including more than 8,000 Han surnames and more than 2,000 minority surnames. The latest report of China press and publication (200115) shows that the number of China surnames in ancient and modern times that Chen Lifu has mastered has reached 15 142, which is the largest number of surnames collected.

What is the most commonly used surname?

The so-called "common surname" is also a relative concept in a certain historical period and geographical scope. For example, the popular version of Hundred Surnames contains 438 surnames, which can only be regarded as ordinary surnames within the Han nationality in the early Northern Song Dynasty. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Shenfeng, editor of Hanlin, compiled Thousand Surnames of the Ming Empire, and received * * * 1968 surnames, which were common surnames at that time. Nowadays, most people who study surnames take the research results of Du Ruofu and Yuan Yida, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as authoritative statements. Du and Yuan determined the surnames of China people as 1 1969 by computer according to the random sampling data of the mainland population and the surnames statistics of Taiwan Province Province provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, including 5327 single surnames and 6642 compound surnames (mostly ethnic minority surnames); There are about 3050 Han surnames still in common use.