How many surnames are there in China at present? What are they?

There are 5,662 surnames in China, including 3,484 single surnames, 2,032 compound surnames and three-character surnames 146.

This does not include the Chinese surname translation of Mongolians and Manchus who moved to the Central Plains in the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Surnames translated into Chinese characters by ethnic minorities in frontier areas are not counted.

The surnames are: Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang, Feng, Chen, Chu, Wei, Jiang, Shen, Han, Yang, Zhu, Qin, You, Xu, He, Lu, Shi, Zhang, Kong, Cao, Yan, Hua, Jin, Wei and Tao.

Zhang, Yun, Su, Pan, Ge, Fan, Peng, Lang, Lu, Wei, Chang, Ma, Miao, Feng, Hua, Fang, Yu, Ren, Yuan, Liu, Yong, Bao, Shi, Tang, Fei, Lian, Cen, Xue, Lei and Lian.

Music, jade, stone, symbol, skin, edge, qi, kang, Wu, jade, yuan, bu, ancient, Meng, flat, yellow, harmony, wood, Xiao, Yin, Yao, Shao, Zhan, Wang, Qi, Mao, jade, land, mi, Bei, Ming and Tibetan.

Xiong, Ji, Shu, Qu, Xiang, Zhu, Dong, Liang, Du, Ruan, Lan, Min, Ji, Ma, Qiang, Jia, Lu, Lou and Wei.

Naming of surnames:

1, with surname as surname.

Surnames were produced as symbols of clans and tribes during the clan commune period, and some descendants directly inherited them as surnames. In matriarchal clan society, the mother is the surname, so many surnames were beside the female word at that time. Such as Ji, Jiang, Si, Yao and so on.

2. Take the country name as the surname

For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qi, Lu, Jin, Song, Zheng, Wu, Huang, Yue, Qin, Chu, Wei, Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chen, Cai, Cao, Hu and Xu became common surnames.

3. Take the city name as the surname

A city is a fief, which is distributed by emperors and princes to doctors with the same or different surnames. Some of their descendants or people living in these fiefs will continue to use their names. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Xun of the State of Jin got a fief in (now yongji city, Shaanxi), and then he became an official. According to statistics, there are nearly 200 surnames with Yi as their surname. Such as Yin, Wei and Han.

4. Take the name of Xiangting as the surname.

This kind of situation is rare. Today's common surnames are Pei, Lu, Yan, Hao and Ouyang. ?

5. Take the place of residence as the surname

Legend has it that in ancient times, Yu Shun came out of the ruins of Yao and took Yao as his surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, doctors in Qi Huangong lived in East China, South China, West China and North China, so they took East China and South China as their surnames.

Dr. Zheng lives in Ximen, so he takes Ximen as his surname. The son of Lu Zhuang, who lives in the east gate of Lu, is called Dongmen Sui and takes Dongmen as his surname.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-China Last Name