Except those using ethnic scripts or written or translated Chinese characters, names generally use more than 2 Chinese characters and less than 6 Chinese characters.
For Chinese names, Han people generally use two characters or one character except for surnames.
Before the Three Kingdoms, names with one character were the main ones. From the Jin Dynasty to modern times, names with two characters were the main ones. If other ethnic groups use transliteration, they use several to ten names, and some also use other Chinese names.
China’s Ministry of Public Security conducted a statistics on names across the country and found that the longest Chinese names reached 15 characters.
There are nearly a thousand Chinese people with names of more than 10 characters, 97% of which are in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Among them, 594 people have names with 10 characters, 272 people have names with 11 characters, and 94 people have names with 12 characters. There are 33 people with 13-character names and 5 people with 14-character names.
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The Ministry of Public Security's "Name Registration Regulations (First Draft)" has caused controversy
The "Name Registration Regulations (Preliminary Draft)" stipulates for the first time that citizens should take their father's or mother's surname, but they are allowed to use the surnames of both parents.
When children adopt the surnames of both parents, they can be named according to the double surnames, but it will not be counted as a compound surname. Calculated based on the existing 1,601 surnames in China, this approach will add 1.28 million double surnames, thus alleviating the problem of common surnames. The problem of duplication of population names.
“The regulations stipulate that ‘citizens should take their father’s or mother’s surname’. This forces citizens to take their father’s or mother’s surname, which is an infringement of citizens’ right to name.” Wen Shiyang explained;
The right to name is essentially a natural person’s exclusive right to control the interests related to his name as one of his personality elements. It is exclusive and non-transferable. No one has the right to force a person to use or not use a certain name.
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