How many surnames does China have? What are they?
There are so many surnames in the country that it is hard to say how many surnames there are. The most common surname is 100, there are 200 rare surnames, and then there are extremely special surnames. There have been hundreds of surnames in the history of the Chinese nation. The "hundred" here refers to the plural and various meanings, not the original hundred meanings. This is the origin of the hundred surnames that people often say now. The name of the hundred surnames came out after the publication of the book Hundred Surnames in the Song Dynasty. According to the number of people using surnames, the ranking is as follows: