Last names in China by number of Chinese characters 2013

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 15, 2013
This statistic shows the last names in China in 2013, by number of Chinese characters. 6,931 last names consisted of one Chinese character.

Last names in China in 2013, by number of Chinese characters

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April 2013

Region

China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Survey time period

2008 to 2010

Supplementary notes

The three most common names in China "Wang, Li, Zhang" accounted for 21 percent of all the Chinese last names.

Altogether there were 23,813 last names recorded in China.
Last name with ten characters exists in Tibet.

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