Is there a maximum number of words for China people to choose their names?

Among the names of registered population of Han nationality in China, three-character names account for 85.61% of the total population, and the longest name is 15 characters. The reporter learned today that there is no word limit for citizens' names at present, but according to the "Regulations on Name Registration (Draft)", except for ethnic minorities, the length of citizens' names will be limited to six words.

Three-character names account for more than 8%

According to a latest name statistics released by the National Citizen ID Number Enquiry Service Center of the Ministry of Public Security yesterday, there are more than 16 million people with two-character names in the registered population of Han nationality in China, accounting for 14.22% of the total registered population of Han nationality in China. The registered population with three-character names is more than 1 billion, accounting for 85.61% of the total population of Han nationality in China. Only more than 1.97 million people have names of four words or more.

The longest name of the Han nationality is 15 words

According to statistics, it is rare that the name of the Han nationality exceeds 1 words, and the longest name reaches 15 words. There are nearly 1, names with more than 1 words, including 594 names with 1 words, 272 names with 11 words, 94 names with 12 words, 33 names with 13 words and 5 names with 14 words. According to statistics, 97% of the nearly 1, people whose names are more than 1 words are in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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Regulations stipulate that the longest name can be six characters

The Regulations on Name Registration (Draft) drafted by the Ministry of Public Security recently stipulates the length of names, that is, except those who use other national languages other than the Han nationality, or write or translate Chinese characters, the names should be more than two Chinese characters and less than six Chinese characters. At the same time, it is stipulated that names shall not use or contain simplified traditional Chinese characters, obsolete variant characters (except variant characters in surnames), self-made characters, foreign characters, Chinese phonetic alphabet, Arabic numerals, symbols and other words beyond the scope of standardized Chinese characters and minority languages.