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  2. List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia

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    A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]

  3. Chinese surname - Wikipedia

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    In a 1990 study, the top 200 family names accounted for over 96% of a random sample of 174,900 persons, with over 500 other names accounting for the remaining 4%. In a different study (1987), which combined data from Taiwan and China (sample size of 570,000 persons), the top 19 names covered 55.6%, [29] and the top 100 names covered 87% of the ...

  4. Category:Chinese-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Chinese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 346 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Template : 100 most common surnames in mainland China

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  6. Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries - Wikipedia

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    Most Indonesians, particularly from the western parts, do not use family names. Only some ethnic groups maintain family names, such as Bataks, Nias, Mentawai, some Dayaks, and most ethnic groups in eastern Indonesia (except in Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, and some groups in Sulawesi, such as the Butonese).

  7. Hundred Family Surnames - Wikipedia

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    Hundred Family Surnames poem written in Chinese characters and Phagspa script, from Shilin Guangji written by Chen Yuanjing in the Yuan dynasty. The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.

  8. Xiao (surname) - Wikipedia

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    It is the 99th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [3] After the demise of the Qing dynasty, some of the descendants of Manchu clan Šumuru sinicized their clan name to the Chinese surnames Shu (舒), Xu (徐) or Xiao (蕭). [4] A 1977 study found that it was the 20th most common Chinese surname in the world.

  9. Wu (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Wú (吳) is the sixth name listed in the Song dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames. [1] In 2019 Wu was the ninth most common surname in Mainland China. [ 2 ] A 2013 study found that it was the eighth most common surname, shared by 26,800,000 people or 2.000% of the population, with the province having the most being Guangdong.