List of common Chinese surnames - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of the top 100 most common Chinese surname
Chinese surname
Chinese family names have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and among overseas Chinese communities. In ancient times two types of surnames, family names and clan names , existed.The colloquial expressions laobaixing...

s according to a study published in 2006. Their ranks in 1990 are shown by the side. Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....

, Cantonese

Standard Cantonese

Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....

, Minnan

Min Nan

The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora....

and Gan transliterations are displayed. Other transliterations, used before the formalization and popularization of existing Romanizations, still can be found in the names of some overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Greater China Area . People of partial Chinese ancestry living outside the Greater China Area may also consider themselves Overseas Chinese....

. Transliterations in other Chinese language

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

s used by some overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese

whose ancestral mother tongue is neither Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

, Cantonese or Minnan also exist, as well as pronunciations in other languages, particularly Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

n and Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

ese, in which these surnames are commonly used. Certain surnames transliterated into other Asian languages are unique only to the particular group of people; for example, many ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam bear modified versions of their original surnames, but only a few are used by ethnic Vietnamese. Similarly, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese transliterations are very rarely carried by ethnic Japanese in Japan, instead they are used by ethnic Chinese and Koreans.

Popularity Rankings

Rank		Char. Chinese character Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...		Mandarin Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....			Cantonese Standard Cantonese Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....			Min Nan Min Nan The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.... (Hokkien Hokkien Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere.... , Taiwanese, Teochew)		Gan	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing... (%RR Revised Romanization of Korean The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea proclaimed by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, replacing the older McCune–Reischauer system... )	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Other
Ranking	Uncited 1990 ranking	T.	S.	Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	W-G Wade-Giles Wade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most... ¹	Other	Jyutping Jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...	HK Gov't Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation The Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the Hong Kong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong... ²	Other	Pe̍h-ōe-jī	Other	Gan				Other
1	3	李		Lǐ	Li	Lee	Lei5	Lee Li	Le Lei⁴	Lí	Lee Lie Dee	Lî	Lý Rank 14	Lee Lee (Korean name) Lee is the common English spelling of 이 , a common Korean family name. The proper pronunciation in South Korea is like the English letter "E", although in North Korea the name is still written as "리" and pronounced "Lee". Many times South Koreans will knowingly introduce themselves as "Lee" to... /Yi/Ri/Rhee (이/리) Rank 2	Ri	Ley (Latin America); Dy, Sy (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
2	1	王		Wáng Wang (surname) Wang is a Chinese family name and one of the most common surnames in the world. It is ranked 8th in the Hundred Family Surnames, and first in the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System . Wang is ranked as the most common surname in mainland China, with 92.88 million...	Wang		Wong4	Wong Wong (surname) Wong is the Cantonese romanization of two common Chinese surnames; Huang and Wang .The logograph for Wong / Huang consists of the radical characters for "twenty", "fires" and "fields," all representing the colour of these images combined.As a result of late 17th to 18th century colonial...	Vong⁴	Ông	Ong Heng (of Teochew descent)	Uōng	Vương Rank 19	Wang (왕)	Ō	Ong (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
3	4	張	张	Zhāng Zhang (surname) Zhang is among the most common Chinese surnames. In the 1990 edition of Guinness Book of Records, it was listed as the world's most common surname, with over 100 million people worldwide with this surname. It was also ranked third in the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Academy of...	Chang		Zoeng1	Cheung	Cheong⁴ Chong⁵	Tiuⁿ	Teo Teoh Tio Thio Tiew	Chong Tong	Trương	Jang (장) Rank 9	Chō	Chang, Tiu, Tiong, Teo(Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... , Malaysia), Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... ), Sutiono / Tjong (Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an... )
4	5	劉	刘	Liú Liu 劉 is a common Chinese family name. The transliteration Liu can represent several different surnames written in different Chinese characters:*劉 / 刘, pinyin: Liú...	Liu	Liou	Lau4	Lau	Lao⁴ Lou	Lâu	Lau Low Lao Lauw	Līu	Lưu Rank 27	Yu/Ryu (유/류)	Ryū	Lao (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
5	2	陳	陈	Chén Chen (surname) Chén or Chan is one of the most common East Asian family names. It ranks as the 5th most common surname in China, as of 2007 and the most common surname in Singapore and Taiwan . Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hong Kong...	Ch'en (Chen)	Chern	Can4	Chan	Chun	Tân	Tan Chan Ting	Chhín Thín	Trần/ Chein Rank 2	Jin (진)	Chin	Ding; Chan, Tan (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... , Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an... )
6	6	楊	杨	Yáng Yang (surname) Yang is the transcription of the Chinese family name 楊 / 杨. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China.- Characters :Yang is most often the transliteration of the character 楊 . The same character can also mean a type of poplar...	Yang		Joeng4	Yeung	Yeong Ieong⁴	Iûⁿ	Eaw Yeo Yeoh Yong	Iōng	Dương/ Huan (Wang) Rank 13	Yang (양)	Yō	Young (English Anglicisation Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to... )
7	7	黃	黄	Huáng	Huang	Hwang Hwang (Korean name) Hwang is a common Korean family name. Hwang is the equivalent of the Chinese surname Huang. Hwangs make up roughly 1.5% of the Korean population; the 2000 South Korean census found 644,294 in that country. The Chinese character for Hwang used most commonly literally means "yellow","golden","brown;...	Wong4	Wong Wong (surname) Wong is the Cantonese romanization of two common Chinese surnames; Huang and Wang .The logograph for Wong / Huang consists of the radical characters for "twenty", "fires" and "fields," all representing the colour of these images combined.As a result of late 17th to 18th century colonial...	Wang Vong⁴	Ng	Ng Eng Wee Oei Ooi Bong Uy Ung	Uōng	Hoàng (皇) Huỳnh Rank 5	Hwang (황) Rank 16	Kō
8	12	趙	赵	Zhào Zhao (surname) Zhao / Chao or Chiu is a common Chinese family name, ranking as the 7th most common surname in Mainland China. Zhao is the first surname in the famous Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the royal surname of the Song Dynasty when the list was...	Chao		Ziu6	Chiu	Chio⁴ Jiu	Tiō	Teo Teoh Chew	Chhèu Thèu	Triệu Rank 23	Jo (조) Rank 7	Chō	Chu (Hawaiian)
9	10	周		Zhōu Zhou (surname) Zhōu is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family name 周, which now ranks as the 10th most common surname in Mainland China. It has been one of the ten most common surnames in China since the Yuan Dynasty....	Chou	Joe	Zau1	Chow	Jao⁴ Chau	Chiu	Chew Chiew Jew	Chiu Tiu	Chu Châu	Ju (주)	Shū
10	8	吳	吴	Wú Wu (surname) Wu is the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 , 吴 , which is the tenth most common surname in Mainland China. Several other, less common Chinese surnames with different pronunciations are also transliterated into English as "Wu": 武, 伍, 仵, 烏, 鄔 and 巫...	Wu	Woo	Ng4	Ng	Ung⁴ Eng	Gô· Ngô·	Goh Gouw	Ng	Ngô Rank 12	Oh (오) Rank 11	Go (of Chinese descent) Kure (of Japanese descent)
11	14	徐		Xú	Hsü (Hsu)		Ceoi4	Tsui	Choi⁴ Chui Tsua	Chhî	Chee Swee Shui Djie Tjhie	Chhí Thí	Từ	Seo (서) Rank 13	Jo	Dharmadjie/Christiadjie (Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an... )
12	15	孫	孙	Sūn Sun (surname) Sun is a transliteration of a common Chinese surname, written 孫 or 孙 in Chinese characters, sūn in Hanyu pinyin...	Sun	Suen	Syun1	Suen	Sun	Sun Soon	Sng	Sun Thun	Tôn Rank 26	Son (손) Rank 15	Son	Suan (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
13	16	朱		Zhū	Chu	Choo	Zyu1	Chu	Chue	Chu Chee	Choo	Chu Tu	Châu Rank 22	Ju (주)	Shu	Gee, Ju
14	18	馬	马	Mǎ Ma (surname) Ma is one of the most common Chinese family names. As of 2006, it ranks as the 14th most common Chinese surname in Mainland China and the most common surname within the Chinese Muslim community, specifically the Hui people, Dongxiang people, and Salar people...	Ma		Maa5	Ma	Mah Mar	Má Bé	Baey	Má	Mã	Ma (마)	Ba
15	23	胡		Hú Hu (surname) Hu 胡 is a Chinese surname or family name. In 2006, it was the 15th most common surname in China.Some other less-common surnames pronounced Hu include 瓠, 護, 戶, 扈, 虎, 呼, 忽, and 斛.-Words:...	Hu		Wu4	Wu	Woo Vu⁴	Hoo Ô· Aw Auw	Oon	Ū Fū	Hồ Rank 11	Ho (호)	Ko
16	20	郭		Guō Guo "Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds outside a city" in Chinese; it can also be spelled Cok, Guo, Quo, Quoc, Quach, Quock, Que, Quek, Kuo, Kok, Koc, Kwok, Kuok, Gock or Koay....	Kuo		Gwok3	Kwok	Kuok⁴	Koeh	Koay Kwik Quek Quay Kwek	Kuok Kok	Quách Quach Quach is a Vietnamese surname: Quách romanized in English: Quach. The name derives from the Chinese surname 郭, which is pronounced Guō in Mandarin and Kwok or Gwok in Cantonese...	Gwak (곽)(37th most common Korean Surname)	Kaku (かく)(of Japanese descent & rank 51st most common Japanese surname)	Ker, Kho, Kwok (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... ), Kwik (Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an... )
17	9	林		Lín Lin (surname) Lín Lin is the second most common surname in Taiwan at 9% of the population, second only to Chen. In mainland China , Lin is generally less common.-Name origin:...	Lin		Lam4	Lam	Lum	Lîm	Lim Liem	Līm	Lâm Rank 15	Im/Rim (임/림) Rank 10	Rin (of Chinese descent) Hayashi (of Japanese descent) Rank 19	Lim (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
18	21	何		Hé	Hê, Ho		Ho4	Ho	Hô	Hoe	Hoh	Hó	Hà	Ha (하)	Ka	Ho
19	17	高		Gāo Gao (surname) Gao is a Chinese family name. There are approximately 16 million living people with this surname. Some places, such as Taiwan, usually romanize this family name into Kao. In Hong Kong, it is romanized to Ko....	Kao		Gou1	Ko	Kou⁴ Go	Koh		Kau	Cao	Go (고)	Kō
20	19	梁		Liáng Liang (surname) Liang is a Chinese surname common in Taiwan and southern China. Meaning "a beam", "a bridge", or "an elevation", or "a mast", the surname is often transliterated as Leung or Leong according to its Cantonese pronunciation, or Neo / Nio / Niu . It is also common in Korea, where it is pronounced Yang...	Liang		Loeng4	Leung	Leong Lang Leng	Niû	Neo New Nio Njoo	Liōng	Lương	Yang, Ryang (양, 량)	Ryō
21	22	鄭	郑	Zhèng Zheng (surname) Zhèng or Cheng is a Chinese family name and is the name of an ancient state in today's Henan. It is written as 鄭 in traditional Chinese script or as 郑 in simplified Chinese script....	Cheng	Jehng	Zeng6	Cheng	Cheang⁴ Chiang⁴	Tēⁿ Tīⁿ	Chung Tay Teh The They Teay	Chhìn Thìn	Trịnh Rank 20	Jeong (정) Rank 5	Tei	Ching (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
22	32	羅	罗	Luó Luo (surname) Luo or "Lo" refers to the Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames 羅 and 駱...	Lo		Lo4	Lo	Law Loh Lowe Lor	Lô		Lō	La	Na/Ra (나/라)	Ra	Lo (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
23	35	宋		Sòng	Sung	Soong	Sung3	Sung		Sòng		Sūng Thūng	Tống	Song Song (Korean name) -origin:SongSong Ju Eun of Yangju Song clanSong Wui is indigenous people of Haeju, Yonan in HwanghaedoSong Song Rye of Iksan Song clanSong Shin Kyung of Mungyeong Song clan... (송) Rank 17	Sō
24	29	謝	谢	Xiè	Hsieh	Shieh	Ze6	Tse	Che⁴	Chiā, Siā	Cheah Tjhia Tjia Chay Seah Shea	Sià Chhià Hà	Tạ	Sa (사)³	Sha	Saa, Sese, Sia (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
25	30	唐		Táng Táng (surname) Tang , is a Chinese surname. The three languages also have the surname with the same character but different pronunciation/romanization . In Korean, it is usually Romanized also as Dang. In Japanese, the surname is often Romanized as To...	T'ang (Tang)		Tong4	Tong		Tn̂g	Tng	Thóng	Đường	Dang (당)	Tō	Tang (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
Rank		Char. Chinese character Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...		Mandarin Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....			Cantonese Standard Cantonese Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....			Min Nan Min Nan The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.... (Hokkien Hokkien Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere.... /Taiwanese/Teochew)		Gan	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Other
2006	1990	T.	S.	Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	W-G Wade-Giles Wade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most... ¹	Other	Jyutping Jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...	HK Gov't Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation The Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the Hong Kong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong... ²	Other	Pe̍h-ōe-jī	Other	Gan				Other
26	42	韓	韩	Hán Han (surname) Han is a common transliteration of the Chinese surname 韩 or 韓 , pronounced Hán, and the Korean surname 한 . The spelling "Han" is based on China's pinyin system and so used throughout Mainland China. Spelling can vary from 'Hon' in Cantonese-speaking areas to 'Hang' in Hainan...	Han		Hon4	Hon		Hân	Han	Hón	Hàn	Han (한) Rank 11	Kan	Hang
27	37	曹		Cáo	Ts'ao (Tsao)(Cao)		Cou4	Tso	Chaw	Chou⁴	Chô	Chháu Tháu	Tào	Jo (조)³	Sō
28	31	許	许	Xǔ	Hsü (Hsu)		Heoi2	Hui Hooi	Hoi⁴	Khó·	Koh Kho Khor Co Khaw Khouw	Hí Hé	Hứa	Heo (허) (about 300,000)	Kyo; Co, Ko (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
29	27	鄧	邓	Dèng Deng (surname) Deng is an East Asian surname. It is a transcription of 邓 or 鄧 . It is transliteted as Dèng in pinyin and Teng in Wade-Giles. In Cantonese, it is Dahng in Yale and Dang6 in Jyutping. In Minnan or Taiwanese, it is Tēng in Pe̍h-ōe-jī...	Teng	Dang6	Tang	Theng	Dung	Tēng		Thèn	Đặng Rank 8	Deung (등)³	Tō	Deang (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
30	55	蕭	萧肖	Xiāo	Hsiao	Siu1	Siu	Sio⁴	Siau	Siow		Sieu Thieu	Tiêu	So (소)	Shō	Siao
31	34	馮	冯	Féng	Feng	Ferng	Fung4	Fung	Fong	Pâng	Pang Phang Fong	Fūng	Phùng Rank 21	Pung	Fū
32	25	曾		Zēng	Tseng	Tzeng	Zang1	Tsang	Chang⁴ Dong	Chan		Chin Tin	Tăng Tang	Jeung (증)³	Sō	Tjan (Indonesia)
33	60	程		Chéng	Ch'eng (Cheng)		Cing4	Ching	Cheng⁴	Thiâⁿ		Chháng Tháng	Trình	Jeong (정)	Tei
34	24	蔡		Cài Cai (surname) Cài is a Chinese surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. It is regionally more common in China's Fujian Province and in countries settled by ethnic Chinese from that province than in China as a whole...	Ts'ai (Tsai)	Chai, Tsay	Coi3	Choi	Choy Tsoi Toy	Chhoà	Chua Choa Tjoa	Chhói Thói	Thái Sái	Chae (채)	Sai	Chua (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
35	79	彭		Péng Peng (surname) Peng is a common Chinese family name, ranking 35th most common in 2006. Alternate Romanizations include Pang , Phang and Bành ....	P'eng (Peng)		Paang4	Pang		Phêⁿ, Phîⁿ		Pháng	Bành	Paeng (팽)	Hō	Phang (Jamaican), Pay (Cambodian/Khmer), Pang (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
36	51	潘		Pān Pan (surname) Pan is a family name originated from China. Pan also is often romanized as Poon or Pun. The surname is spelled as Poon or Pun in Hong Kong and Macau, Ban in South Korea and Phan in Vietnam....	P'an (Pan)		Pun1	Poon	Pun⁴	Phoaⁿ	Phua	Phon	Phan Rank 6	Ban (반)	Han
37	33	袁		Yuán Yuan (surname) Yuan is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated "Yuán" or "Yüen2" . Regional variants include "Yeu" , "Ion" , "Yuen" , "Oan" , "Won" , and "Viên"...	Yüan (Yuan)		Jyun4	Yuen	Wan	Un⁴	Oân	Iōn Iēn	Nguyen Viên	Won (원)	En	Yan (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
38	41	于		Yú	Yü (Yu)		Jyu1	Yue	U⁴	Î, Û		Ī	Vu	U (우)	U	Yu (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
39	40	董		Dǒng	Tung		Dung2	Tung	Tong⁴	Táng		Tûng	Đổng	Dong (동)	Tō
40	61	余		Yú	Yü (Yu)		Jyu4	Yu, Yue	U⁴ Yee	Î, Û	Ee	Ī	Dư	Yeo (여)	Yo	Eu, Ya, Oe (Indonesia)
41	36	蘇	苏	Sū Su (surname) Sū or So is the 41st most common Chinese family name in 2006.-Origins:There are many theories to the origins of the surname.One suggests that it derives from a minority ethnic group...	Su		Sou1	So	Sou⁴	Soh	Souw	Su Thu	Tô	So (소)	So	Soo
42	11	葉	叶	Yè Ye (surname) Ye is the 42nd most common Chinese surname. The same Chinese character is commonly romanized as Ye in mainland China and Yeh in Taiwan from the Mandarin pronunciation. In Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia, it is usually romanized as Yip or Ip from the Cantonese pronunciation, and Yap or Yeap...	Yeh	Yee Ee	Jip6	Yip	Ip Yeap	Ia̍p	Yap	Iep	Diệp	Yeop (엽)	Yō	Yap (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
43	13	呂	吕	Lǚ Lü (surname) Lü is a Chinese family name, it may be spelled as Lyu, Lu or Lv, when input of the umlaut is not possible. It is transliterated as Lui in Cantonese...	Lü (Lu)		Leoi5	Lui	Loi⁴	Loy	Lī Lū	Lî	Lữ Lã	Ryeo	Ryo	Loy (Tausug Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
44	62	魏		Wèi Wei (surname) Wei is a Chinese surname. It was ranked the 122th most common Chinese surname in 2006.-List of people with the surname Wei :* Wei Chen, a Chinese singer and actor* Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident* Wei Qing, a general of the Western Han Dynasty...	Wei		Ngai6	Ngai		Gūi	Wee	Ngùi	Nguỵ Ngụy	Wi	Gi
45	44	蔣	蒋	Jiǎng Jiang (surname) Jiang can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:#蔣 or 蒋 , Jiǎng #姜, Jiāng , Kang...	Chiang	Chung	Zoeng2	Tseung	Cheung	Cheong⁴ Chiang	Chiúⁿ	Chiông Tiông	Tưởng	Jang	Shō	Chiong (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
46	58	田		Tián	T'ien (Tien)		Tin4	Tin	Chan		Tiân	Thién	Điền	Jeon	Den
47	48	杜		Dù Du (surname) Du is a Chinese family name. The name is spelled Tu in Taiwan. In Hong Kong it is translated as To, the pronunciation of 杜 in Cantonese. The Vietnamese equivalent surname is Đỗ....	Tu		Dou6	To	Do Tou⁴	Tō·	Toh	Thù	Đỗ Rank 10	Du	To
48	49	丁		Dīng Ding (surname) Ding is the simplest written Chinese family name in existence . It is written in two strokes and is first on the Chinese surname stroke order.-Speculated origins:...	Ting		Ding1	Ting	Ding Teng⁴	Teng		Tiang	Đinh Rank 16	Jeong	Tei
49	28	沈		Shěn Shen (surname) Shen can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese family names 沈, 申, 慎.-Surname 沈:沈 is the 14th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames text...	Shen		Sam2	Sum	Sam⁴ Shum	Sím	Shim	Sím Thím	Thẩm Trầm	Shim (심)	Shin
50	52	姜		Jiāng Jiang (江) (surname) Jiang is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem...	Chiang	Kiang	Goeng1	Keung	Geung Keong⁴	Kiang Kiuⁿ		Kiong	Khương	Kang (강) Rank 6	Kyō
Rank		Char. Chinese character Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...		Mandarin Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....			Cantonese Standard Cantonese Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....			Min Nan Min Nan The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.... (Hokkien Hokkien Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere.... /Taiwanese/Teochew)		Gan	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Other
2006	1990	T.	S.	Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	W-G Wade-Giles Wade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most... ¹	Other	Jyutping Jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...	HK Gov't Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation The Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the Hong Kong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong... ²	Other	Pe̍h-ōe-jī	Other	Gan				Other
51	65	范		Fàn Fan (surname) Fan is a transliteration for some Chinese family names, of which the most common ones are 范 and 樊 .-Origin and branch of Fàn :*The Fan trace their origin to the Yao, a legendary Chinese ruler who lived from 2358 - 2258 BCE. Until the Zhou Dynasty 1122–256 BCE they are grouped with the Du clan...	Fan		Faan6	Fan		Hum	Hoān Huan Wan	Fàn	Phạm Rank 4	Beom	Han
52	87	江		Jiāng Jiang (surname) Jiang can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames:#蔣 or 蒋 , Jiǎng #姜, Jiāng , Kang...	Chiang	Kiang	Gong1	Kong		Kang		Kong	Giang	Gang	Kō	Kong (Hakka)
53	106	傅		Fù Fu (surname) Fu is a common spelling for some Chinese surnames, such as 傅, 符, 付, 扶, 伏, and 富.The following are people with this surname:- 傅 :According to ancient texts, the name 傅 originated in the time of the Shang dynasty king Wu Ding . Wu Ding dreamed about a man looking like a prisoner, and was told by a...	Fu		Fu6	Fu, Foo		Poh Pha		Fù	Phó	Bu (부)	Fu	Po (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
54	46	鍾	钟	Zhōng Zhong (surname) Zhong is pinyin transliteration of several Chinese surname, including Zhōng 鍾/钟, Zhòng 种 and Zhòng 仲 etc. It's also transliterated as Tihon and Chung . It is the 56th most common last name in China. People surnamed Zhong are the descendents of Shang Tang...	Chung		Zung1	Chung	Chong⁴	Chiong Cheng		Chung Tung	Chung	Jong	Shō
55	66	盧	卢	Lú Lü (surname) Lü is a Chinese family name, it may be spelled as Lyu, Lu or Lv, when input of the umlaut is not possible. It is transliterated as Lui in Cantonese...	Lu		Lou4	Lo	Lou⁴	Lô·	Loh Loo	Lū	Lư Lô	No/Ro (노, 로)	Ryo
56	75	汪		Wāng Wang (surname) Wang is a Chinese family name and one of the most common surnames in the world. It is ranked 8th in the Hundred Family Surnames, and first in the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System . Wang is ranked as the most common surname in mainland China, with 92.88 million...	Wang		Wong1	Wong		Ong Ang		Uong	Uông	Wang	Ō
57	64	戴		Dài	Tai		Daai3	Tai		Tè		Thài	Đái Đới	Dae	Tai	Ty, Tee (Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... )
58	59	崔		Cuī Cui (surname) Cuī, Choi , a common surname ranked 54th in population in China also spelt asCuī in China Beijing-Manchu dialectChui in Hong Kong CantoneseChoi in Macau Cantonese, Korea dialectTsui in Taiwan dialect...	Ts'ui (Tsui)	Tsuei	Ceoi1	Chui	Choi⁴	Chui Sam		Chhoi Thoi	Thôi	Choi (최) Rank 4	Sai
59	43	任		Rén	Jen		Jam6	Yam	Iam⁴ Yum	Jîm		Nìm	Nhiệm Nhậm	Im (임)	Jin
60	38	陸	陆	Lù Lü (surname) Lü is a Chinese family name, it may be spelled as Lyu, Lu or Lv, when input of the umlaut is not possible. It is transliterated as Lui in Cantonese...	Lu		Luk6	Luk	Lok⁴	Lio̍k	Loke	Liuk	Lục	Ryuk Yuk ³	Riku
61	82	廖		Liào Liao (surname) Liao is a Chinese surname, most commonly found in Southern China. Statistics show it is among the 100 most common surnames in mainland China.In Cantonese Romanization, one of the most common schemes for transliterating Cantonese, it is read as Liu...	Liao		Liu6	Liu	Lew/ Leow/Liew Lio⁴	Liow	Liāu Liauw Liaw Liow	Lièu	Liêu Liệu	Ryo	Ryō
62	50	姚		Yáo Yao (surname) Yao is one of the most ancient Chinese surnames. It is usually romanised as Yiu in Cantonese. It is ranked 101st in the Hundred Family Surnames, and as the 41st most common surname in Mainland China.- Prominent people :...	Yao		Jiu4	Yiu	Yeow Io⁴ Iu⁴	Yow	Iâu	Iēu	Diêu	Yo	Yō
63	47	方		Fāng Fang (surname) Fang is the 47th most prevalent Chinese surname. In Chinese, "方", means "square" or "four-sided".Some more uncommon surnames that appear with the same pinyin are "房" and "芳"...	Fang		Fong1	Fong		Png, Hong		Fong	Phương	Bang (방)	Hō	Pō
64	56	金		Jīn Jin (surname) Jin is a Chinese family name. It literally means "gold" and is No. 29 of the Hundred Family Surnames. The surname is also used in Vietnam and Korea, where it is romanized as Kim and in Hong Kong, in Cantonese, Kam...	Chin	Kim	Gam1	Kam	Gum	Kim		Kim	Kim	Kim (김) Rank 1	Kin
65	54	邱		Qiū Qiū (surname) Qiū is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family names 丘, 邱 and 仇, 秋. They may be transliterated in various forms, as:* 丘, 邱, 秋 as Qiū, 仇 as Qiú * Chiu...	Ch'iu (Chiu)	Chiou	Jau1	Yau	Iao<⁴ Iau⁴	Khu, Cu	Khoo Koo	Khiu	Khưu	Koo (구)	Kyū	Hew, Hiew, Chiew (Malaysia)
66	69	夏		Xià	Hsia		Haa6	Ha		Hā	Hah	Hà	Hạ	Ha	Ka
67	53	譚	谭	Tán Tan (surname) Tan is a Chinese surname. In a 2006 study of the 100 most common Chinese surnames, Tan was found to be the 67th most common. It is also used in Korea, although very rarely.-Origin:Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname:...	T'an (Tan)		Taam4	Tam	Tom Ham Hom	Thâm	Tham	Thóm	Đàm	Dam	Tan
68	120	韋	韦	Wéi Wei (surname) Wei is a Chinese surname. It was ranked the 122th most common Chinese surname in 2006.-List of people with the surname Wei :* Wei Chen, a Chinese singer and actor* Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident* Wei Qing, a general of the Western Han Dynasty...	Wei		Wai4	Wai	Vai⁴			Uī	Vi	Wi	I
69	57	賈	贾	Jiǎ JIA JIA or Jia may refer toJIA* Japan Institute of Architects* Jacksonville International Airport, medium-to-large airport in the city of Jacksonville, Florida.* Jetstream International Airlines, now known as PSA Airlines...	Chia		Gaa2	Ga		Ká		Ká	Giả	Ga , Go	Ka
70	74	鄒	邹	Zōu Zou (surname) Zou is the 67th most prevalent Chinese surname. "Zou" is specifically used as a surname.People with the surname Zou mainly live in Eastern Asia, in particular mainland China...	Tsou		Zau1	Chow	Jao⁴ Chau	Cho·		Chiu Tiu	Trâu	Chu	Sū
71	78	石		Shí	Shih		Sek6	Sek, Shek	Seac<⁴ Seak⁴	Chioh	Chew	Sak Thak	Thạch	Dol	Seki
72	133	熊		Xióng Xiong (surname) Xiong or Hsiung is a Chinese surname, literally meaning "bear". It is one of the earliest Chinese family names, with roots in legendary history....	Hsiung		Hung4	Hung	Hong⁴			Hiōng	Hùng	Ung	Yū
73	99	孟		Mèng	Meng		Maang6	Mang		Bēng		Mèn	Mạnh	Maeng	Mō
74	81	秦		Qín	Ch'in (Chin)		Ceon4	Tseun Tseon Chun	Chon⁴	Chîn		Chhín Thín	Tần	Jin	Shin
75	92	閻	阎	Yán	Yen		Jim4	Yim	Im⁴	Giâm		Iēm	Diêm	Yeom	En
Rank		Char. Chinese character Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...		Mandarin Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....			Cantonese Standard Cantonese Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....			Min Nan Min Nan The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.... (Hokkien Hokkien Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere.... (Fujian Fujian ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait... )/Teochew)		Gan	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Other
2006	1990	T.	S.	Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	W-G Wade-Giles Wade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most... ¹	Other	Jyutping Jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...	HK Gov't Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation The Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the Hong Kong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong... ²	Other	Pe̍h-ōe-jī	Other	Gan				Other
76	63	薛		Xuē Xue Xue is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 , Hsueh in the Wade-Giles system, and Sit in the Cantonese system. In Korean, the hanja corresponds to Seol and in Japanese the kanji corresponds to Setsu. According to a study published in 2006, it is the 76th most common Chinese surname...	Hsüeh (Hsueh)		Sit3	Sit		See Seet	Sih	Siot Siet Thiet	Tiết	Seol	Setsu
77	68	侯		Hóu Hou Hou or HOU may be-hou, a Norman suffix for "small island"Hō, an album by Maximum the HormoneHouston, TexasWilliam P. Hobby Airport's IATA code*Hou , a rank of Chinese nobility and a Chinese surname...	Hou		Hau4	Hau	Hao⁴	Hâu Jao		Héu	Hầu	Hu	Kō
78	102	雷		Léi Lei (surname) Lei can represent one or more romanized Chinese surname. The most common character is 雷 , meaning "Thunder". 雷 is the 78th most common Chinese surname as of 2006 according to a study carried out by the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Common...	Lei		Leoi4	Lui	Loi⁴			Lūi	Lôi	Roe , Noe	Rai	Louie or Louis (Hoisan Taishan dialect Taishanese is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is closely related to Cantonese.Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of Guangdong Province in China, particularly in and around the city-level county of Taishan... )
79	70	白		Bái Bai (surname) Bai is a common Mandarin Chinese surname, mostly found in the Mongolia region. With its variants, Bai was ranked 79th within the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 70th in 1990....	Pai	Bo, Po	Baak6	Pak		Pe̍h, Pe̍k	Peh	Phak	Bạch	Baek (백)	Haku
80	108	龍	龙	Lóng Long (surname) Long is a surname and may refer to many people.Long is a romanization of the Chinese surname 龍, which means "dragon" in Chinese. The name ranked number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 108 in 1990. The name is also romanized as Lung.The Longs in Ireland got their names...	Lung		Lung4	Lung Loong	Long⁴	Lêng		Lūng	Long	Ryong , Yong Rong , Nong Bang	Ryū
81	118	段		Duàn	Tuan		Dyun6	Tuen	Tun⁴	Tōaⁿ Tōan Tn̂g Then̄g		Thòn	Đoàn	Dan	Dan
82	110	郝		Hǎo	Hao		Kok3	Kok				Hok	Hác	Hak	Kaku
83	128	孔		Kǒng Kong (surname) Kong is Chinese, Korean surname, Gong in Common.-Origin:孔 from Ji clan of South Yan state at BC 7th century孔 from Zheng Mu Gong in Zheng of Zhou Dynasty at BC 7th century...	K'ung (Kung)		Hung2	Hung	Hong⁴			Khúng	Khổng	Kong (공)	Kō
84	88	邵		Shào Shao Shao 邵 is a common Chinese family name. It's the 86th most populous family name in China. Corresponds to last name "So" in Korean; "Thiệu" or "Thiều" in Vietnamese; and Siu/Chow/Sho in other Chinese romanisations...	Shao	Shaw	Siu6	Shiu	Sio⁴	Siō		Sèu Thèu	Thiệu	So	Shō
85	76	史		Shǐ	Shih		Si2	Sze	Si⁴	See Seet Sú		Sí Thí	Sử	Sa	Shi
86	89	毛		Máo Mao (surname) Mao is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including common names 毛 Máo, 茅 Māo and some rare names 茆 Máo, 卯 Máo, 貌 Mào etc.毛 originated from Ji , the clan name of Zhou Dynasty...	Mao		Mou4	Mo	Mou⁴	Mô·		Māu	Mao	Mo	Mō
87	94	常		Cháng Chang (surname) Cháng is a Chinese surname. It was ranked the 87th most common Chinese surname in 2006.-Prominent people with Chinese family name 常:Chang Yuchun, 常遇春 Ming Dynasty General-See also:List of common Chinese surnames...	Ch'ang (Chang)		Soeng4	Sheung	Seong⁴	Siông		Sōng Thōng	Thường	Sang	Jō
88	97	萬	万	Wàn	Wan		Maan6	Man		Bān		Màn	Vạn	Man	Ban
89	45	顧	顾	Gù	Ku		Gu3	Gu	Goo Ku	Kò·		Kū	Cố	Go	Ko
90	86	賴	赖	Lài Lai (surname) Lai is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Cantonese and Mandarin. It is also a Taiwanese surname that is romanized as "Luā"....	Lai	Lay		Laai6	Lai	Lay		Lài	Lōa	Roe , Noe	Rai	Lại
91	130	武		Wǔ Wu (surname) Wu is the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 , 吴 , which is the tenth most common surname in Mainland China. Several other, less common Chinese surnames with different pronunciations are also transliterated into English as "Wu": 武, 伍, 仵, 烏, 鄔 and 巫...	Wu		Mou5	Mo	Mou⁴			Mú	Vũ Võ Rank 7	Mu	Bu
92	95	康		Kāng	Kang		Hong1	Hong		Khng		Khong	Khang	Gang	Kō
93	71	賀	贺	Hè	Hê, Ho		Ho6	Ho		Hō		Hò	Hạ	Ha	Ga
94	93	嚴	严	Yán	Yen		Jim4	Yim	Im⁴	Giâm		Nghiēm	Nghiêm	Eom	Gen
95	101	尹		Yǐn Yin (surname) "Yin" is usually a transliteration of a word from the Mandarin dialect — its cognate in another Chinese dialect may be pronounced differently, and thus spelled as Yuan for example...	Yin	Yiin	Wan5	Wan				Ín	Doãn	Yun (윤) Rank 8	In
96	72	錢	钱	Qián Qian (surname) Qian , also spelt Chien, Tsien, or rarely Zee is a prominent Chinese family name. The name literally means "money". Today, it is ranked 92nd in terms of population in mainland China. Despite the rarity of this last name among the Chinese population today, there has been a number of notable Qians in...	Ch'ien (Chien)		Cin4	Chin	Chee		Chîⁿ	Chhién Thién	Tiền	Jeon	Sen
97	84	施		Shī	Shih		Si1	Sze	Si	Si	See	Si Thi	Thi	Si , I	Shi	Schultz, See, Sy (Philippines)
98	96	牛		Niú NIU NIU or Niu as a name can refer to:Northern Illinois University Niue Network Interface Unit ; see Network Interface Device National Ilan University...	Niu		Ngau4	Ngau	Ngao⁴	Gû		Ngiēu	Ngưu	U	Gyū
99	67	洪		Hóng	Hung		Hung4	Hung	Hong⁴	Âng	Ang	Fūng	Hồng	Hong (홍) Rank 20	Kō
100	80	龔	龚	Gōng Gong (surname) Gong is china, korea's a few surname.-龔, 共:Gong , aka Kung in Cantonese, is the 99th most prevalent Chinese surname listed in the ancient Song Dynasty classic text, "Hundred Family Surnames"...	Kung		Gung2	Kung	Kwong	Kong⁴	Kióng	Kung	Cung	Gong	Kyū
Rank		Char. Chinese character Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...		Mandarin Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin or Putonghua, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China , and is one of the four official languages of Singapore....			Cantonese Standard Cantonese Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese....			Min Nan Min Nan The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora.... (Hokkien Hokkien Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere.... (Fujian Fujian ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait... )/Teochew)		Gan	Vietnamese Vietnamese language Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...	Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...	Other
2006	1990	T.	S.	Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...	W-G Wade-Giles Wade–Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century , and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese–English dictionary of 1892.Wade–Giles was the most... ¹	Other	Jyutping Jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...	HK Gov't Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation The Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation is the more or less consistent way for romanising Cantonese proper nouns employed by the Hong Kong Government departments and many non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong... ²	Other	Pe̍h-ōe-jī	Other	Gan				Other
The following from the 1990 list are no longer within the 2006 top 100.
	26	佘		Shé She (surname) She is a Chinese family name.She was listed at the 546th place in the Hundred Family Surnames. Romanization of 佘 has many variations, there are "Siah", "Seah", "Sheh", "Sia".-Origins:...	She		Se4	Sheh	Se⁴ Shai	Sia		Sa Tha	Xà	Sa ³	Sha
	39	麥	麦	Mài	Mai		Mak6	Mak	Muk	Be̍h	Beh Mark	Mak	Mạch	Maek ³	Baku
	73	莊	庄	Zhuāng Zhuang (surname) Zhuang is a Chinese surname. It ranked 73rd by population in a 1990 study of 174,900 samples but dropped out of the top 100 in a 2006 study, which included 296 million samples ....	Chuang		Zong1	Chong		Chng	Ching/Ch'ng	Chong Tong	Trang	Jang	Shō
	77	路		Lù Lü (surname) Lü is a Chinese family name, it may be spelled as Lyu, Lu or Lv, when input of the umlaut is not possible. It is transliterated as Lui in Cantonese...	Lu		Lou6	Lo	Lou⁴	Lō·		Lù	Lộ	Ro , No	Ro
	83	黎		Lí Li (surname) Li is a common transliteration of several Chinese family names, including 李 , the most common Chinese family name, and the Korean family name Lee...	Li		Lai4	Lai		Lê	Loy	Lī	Lê Rank 3	Ryeo , Yeo	Rei
	85	符		Fú Fu (surname) Fu is a common spelling for some Chinese surnames, such as 傅, 符, 付, 扶, 伏, and 富.The following are people with this surname:- 傅 :According to ancient texts, the name 傅 originated in the time of the Shang dynasty king Wu Ding . Wu Ding dreamed about a man looking like a prisoner, and was told by a...	Fu		Fu6	Foo	Fu	Pò·		Fū	Phó	Bu	Fu
	90	邢		Xíng Xing (surname) Xing denotes a Chinese surname. There are two hypothesized sources for the extant catalogue of surnames:1. According to Yuanhe Xing Zhuan , or Yuanhe Xing Collections, Xing is originated from Ji , the royal family of Zhou Dynasty in China. The fourth son of the Duke of Zhou, was appointed the...	Hsing		Jing4	Ying	Ieng⁴	Hêng		Hīn	Hình	Hyeong	Kei
	91	倪		Ní	Ni		Ngai4	Ngai		Gê		Ngī	Nghê	Ye	Gei
	98	陶		Táo Tao (surname) - List of persons with the surname Tao :* Tao Dayu, television actor* Tao Qian, warlord during the late Han Dynasty* Tao Kan, Jin Dynasty general and governor* Tao Luna, sports shooter* Tao Siju, politician* Terence Tao, Australian mathematician...	T'ao (Tao)		Tou4	Tou	Tow	Tô		Tháu	Đào	Do (도)	Tō
	100	葛		Gě	Kê, Ko		Got3	Kot		Kat		Kot	Cát	Gal	Katsu

Unofficial versions of Wade-Giles transliterations, (with diacritics removed) appear in parentheses. Currently, Wade-Giles is used primarily to romanize Taiwanese names, and often appears (erroneously) without the diacritics.
This is the romanization used most often by the Hong Kong Government in transliterating names for birth certificates and identity cards. It is an unsystematic method based on the Meyer-Wempe
Meyer-Wempe
The Meyer–Wempe romanization system was developed by two Roman Catholic missionaries in Hong Kong, Bernhard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe, during the 1920s and 1930s for romanizing Cantonese.-Initials:...

system, without any of the aspiration marks and diacritics.
None or very few in South Korean 2000 census (foreigners' households not included). Only indicated for Chinese 40 most common surnames, not checked for Chinese 41–100. Names 1–40 whose Korean rank or number is not indicated have more than 1.000 bearers according to the census, but are not among the most common 16 names.
Portuguese transliteration only used in Macau
Macau
Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
Common Americanised spelling

History

2006 – Ranking based on a multi-year survey and study conducted by Yuan Yida
Yuan Yida
Yuan Yida is a researcher from the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a leading researcher on Chinese surnames in mainland China, and has been working on statistical studies of surname distribution in the People's Republic of China over the...

, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...

, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, using a sample size of 296 million, spread across 1,110 counties and cities. A total of 4,100 surnames recorded.
November 2004 – China issued its first set of postage stamps, for each of the top 100 Chinese family names (based on a 1982 government survey).
1990 – Sample size of 174,900.

External links

Alphabetical list of Chinese surnames
LIN Yu-tang Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage: For pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

and link to Cantonese Jyuping transliteration.
Look up all surnames from LIN Yu-Tang dictionary (Big5 font required)
The Ten-Thousand Families of Surnames from Netor (Netor网同纪念 [Netor Memorial] (in simplified Chinese only)
Child Names World.Com Chinese Boy names

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