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Today we will discuss, in the ranking of Chinese surnames, what are the top ten surnames?

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As of 2019, the top ten Chinese surnames are Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu, and Zhou.

In January 2019, the Household Registration Management Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security relied on the world's largest population information system, covering nearly 1.4 billion people across the country, and used big data technology to analyze the national surnames registered by public security agencies in 2018. A statistical analysis was conducted and the "Hundred Family Surnames" for 2018 were released.

According to statistics, there are 6,150 surnames in use across the country. In the traditional sense, "hundred family surnames" account for nearly 85% of the total registered population in the country.

According to statistics, there are 23 surnames in the country with a registered population of more than 10 million. The number of registered residents with the surname Wang and Li both exceeds 100 million. The five surnames Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu and Chen occupy the top five places in terms of household registration population.

The number of registered residents with the surname "Wang" is only 610,000 more than that of the surname "Li". The battle between "Wang" and "Li" as the most popular surname will continue. There is only a 43,000 difference between the surname "Lai" ranked 101st and the surname "Tang" ranked 100th. There is great hope to join the "Hundred Family Surnames" in the future.

The number of people using both their father’s and mother’s surnames in their names is growing rapidly. At the end of 1990, this figure was 118,000. At the end of 2018, this figure was 1.1 million.

When the paternal and maternal surnames are used at the same time, the surname combinations are mainly concentrated in the common surnames "Zhang, Wang, Li, Yang, Liu, Chen, Zhou", etc. The top 20 surnames mainly include "Zhang Yang" "Li Yang", "Liu Yang", "Wang Yang", "Zhang Li", etc.

The earliest printed version of "Hundred Family Surnames" discovered so far was published in the Yuan Dynasty (early fourteenth century AD). It was based on the phonetic and stroke correspondence of Chinese characters and Mongolian characters. However, the Yuan Dynasty version was incomplete, and the long-circulated "Hundred Family Surnames" was not completely included until the Ming Dynasty.

It records a total of 438 surnames, of which 408 are single surnames, consisting of 102 lines, and 38 are compound surnames, compiled into 15 lines. The last line is the end of the Hundred Family Surnames, which is the final chapter of the Hundred Family Surnames. It consists of 118 lines and has 472 characters.