The surname Wang originated from the surname Ji. Prince Jin, the son of King Ling of Zhou, was called Prince Jin. He was deposed as a commoner because he was remonstrated. His son Zong Jing was still serving as a Situ in the court. People at that time called him the "Wang family" because he was a descendant of the royal family, and this family took Wang as their surname. During the pre-Qin period, the Wang family had been active in Luoyang, Henan. At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Wang Li's sons Wang Yuan and Wang Wei moved to Langya, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi, respectively, to avoid war, and eventually developed into the Langya Wang family and the Taiyuan Wang family. There are two prominent families with royal surnames.

The surname Wang is a Han surname, ranking 8th in China's "Hundred Family Surnames". According to the analysis of data from the Sixth National Census in 2010 by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China, Wang is the most common surname in mainland China, with approximately 94.68 million people, accounting for 7.10% of the total population in mainland China. According to household registration statistics from the Department of Household Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China on July 1, 2010, the surname Wang ranks as the sixth most common surname in Taiwan. According to a 1977 paper by Chinese historian Li Dongming on "surnames" published in "Oriental Magazine", the surname Wang is one of the top ten Chinese surnames in the world. In addition, the surname Wang is also one of the single surnames in Japan, but it is extremely rare.

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Migration and distribution evolution - Han nationality

The Wang surname has been mainly active in North China during the pre-Qin, Han, Wei and Jin periods. The development is very rapid. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in addition to the migration of Wang surnamed factions to the interior, the most important event was that Wang Shenzhi, a native of Gushi, Henan, moved south to Fujian and established the State of Fujian, which became one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. He was the founder of the Wang surname in Fujian. Historically known as the Kaimin Wang family.

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