The latest name statistics released today by the National Citizen Identity Card Number Inquiry Service Center of the Ministry of Public Security show that the names of my country’s Han registered population are mostly concentrated in 2-character names and 3-character names, and the longest name Achieved 15 words. The person in charge of the center called on citizens not to blindly pursue the uniqueness and individuality of names when naming their children, but ignore the standardization of names.
The National Citizen Identity Information System shows that there are more than 160 million Han people with two-character names in their household registrations across the country, accounting for 14.22% of the total Han household registration population in the country. 2-letter names are relatively concise and favored by many people. However, due to the high probability of duplication of names in 2-letter names, more and more people prefer to use 3 or more words to express more meaning and avoid duplication of names. bring trouble. There are more than 1 billion people with registered names with three-character names, accounting for 85.61% of the country's total Han population, while there are only more than 1.97 million people with names of four characters or more.
Statistics show that the longest name among the Han population reaches 15 characters. There are nearly a thousand people with names of more than 10 characters, including 594 people with 10-character names, 272 people with 11-character names, 94 people with 12-character names, 33 people with 13-character names and 14-character names respectively. and 5 people.
According to statistics, 97% of the nearly 1,000 Han people with names of more than 10 characters are in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Since there are currently 4,100 surnames in our country, as the number of people with small surnames decreases, the probability of the country's population having the same name increases. At present, there are more than 22 million newborns in our country every year. Some parents name their newborns arbitrarily, which leads to an increasing chance of duplicate names. The consequences of duplicate names have affected household registration management, postal and telecommunications, bank savings, medical insurance and other industries. Industry.
In addition, the National Citizen Identity Information System shows that there is a certain proportion of uncommon characters in citizens’ names. Uncommon characters refer to characters that exceed the national secondary character library. The use of simplified traditional Chinese characters, uncommon characters, self-made characters, and eliminated variant characters not only causes certain difficulties in household registration management and statistical work, but also brings inconvenience to children when applying for household registration, ID cards, overseas passports and other documents. convenient. In the information age, irregular naming is not conducive to information transmission and communication.