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Request an additional column with exact pronunciations, either phonetic transcription or embedded sound files. We have many columns with multiple transliterations, unfortunately missing one with pronunciation. Possibly, small sound files, if not all pronunciations can be correctly represented using phonetic transcription. Atif.hussain (talk) 02:06, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
The top 100 surnames have changed according to a study just published in 2006:
The reference [1] is a news article, which may disappear after some time. If someone know the primary source or a more stable link, please post it here. While I am working on the list in User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames, discussion on the proposed change is also welcome. -- Felix Wan 20:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Done. -- Felix Wan 06:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Vietnamese spellings were added for all surnames by 66.167.192.167. Do all these surnames exist in Vietnam? Or just that they're the spellings of the same words in Vietnamese? :-D — Instantnood 07:38, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
Vietnamese surnames can be said to identically fall under the head of Chinese surnames. You'll find the answer in Vietnamese name.
Is there any rankings by province or by region? It would be interesting to see the picture how some surnames are concentrated in certain regions. I've tried looking up on the internet but seems there isn't any. — Instantnood 23:58, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Does the column for simplified character need to be filled in cases (of which there are several), in which the traditional and simplified form are identical? --Dpr 07:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I also think that it is unnecessary; furthermore, it makes difficult to visualize which surnamens REALLY have simplified versions. 201.6.253.247 14:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Most, if not all of the statistics I've seen list Kim as the most common Korean surname, but it is not indicated as such here. Instead, Lee/Yi is noted as the most common. Why? 82.123.155.250 18:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Does the list have only Han surnames? Is it in order of the commonest? LDHan 21:10, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn´t it be better in ocidental alphabetical order (of course, respecting each section), just like the chinese page? 201.6.253.247 14:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
--Rapunzel77gil 16:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)The problem with romanizing the surnames is that it creates many variations. In justifying my statement, I noted an error in the 60th popular surname 陸. I share this surname and am a Cantonese. In the Romanized version, my surname is spelled as Loke. No doubt about the spelling. The Cantonese pronunciation for 陸 can either be Luk or Loke. A large majority in Singapore with the romanized surname Loke are Cantonese. The Hokkien Romanized version for 陸 however, is spelled as Lek not Loke.
The text in the table is showing up in Times Roman. Can the font be changed to Arial so that it's not forced into Times? Thank you, Badagnani 08:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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The Word "Chiu" have two different Chinese word:"邱" or "丘" 邱 much more common than its counterpart 丘
I think it need to be noted in the article. Hattonchiu1 05:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Vote here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Korean family names (2nd nomination). Badagnani 05:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm inclined to remove the rankings included for Vietnamese and Korean surnames for the following reasons:
-- Robocoder (t|c) 05:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Do I infer correctly that Pun is a Cantonese spelling, and that according to standard Wikipedia practice the article should reside at Pan (surname)? I created the Pun (surname) article from content inappropriately inserted into Pun. In any case, if Pun (surname) is moved to Pan (surname), please also make the appropriate correction at Pun (disambiguation). Wareh 15:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
In Vietnamese, that surname appears as "Phan". Le Anh-Huy 07:16, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Can we create a new section on rare surnames like "ning" (that's mine!).宁雨翔 (talk) 21:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
These rankings are based on a very, very, very large survey, but they're still wrong. The NCIIC – the people who bring you China's national ID card – have the actual numbers for the whole country and Wang barely edges out the other two of the top three.
The top three are cited all over the Chinese net and Baidu Questions has some of the numbers for the less common names, but my Chinese is too poor to find where on the NCIIC page the list is that Baidu Questions is using. If we could find it, it'd be good to give the actual numbers or rough percentage (7, 7, 7, 5, 3...). — LlywelynII 13:13, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
One thing that would be useful would be addition of Middle and Old Chinese pronunciations of these names using
Baxter, Wm. H. & Sagart, Laurent. "Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction". (1.93 MB). 2011.
One thing I'm not really seeing the value of is the transliterations into Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese. The common names have their own pages; the uncommon ones fail notability. Isn't the proper place for that information on the surname pages themselves?
I mean, on the one hand, we can expand infinity to the right here on the internet; on the other, it does make it a bit of a pain to print or move the page. And what's the source for any of them anyway? — LlywelynII 13:07, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Over at "Chinese surname", they have a section on most common surnames that's badly out of date (not to mention wrong) and thus needs to be removed. On the other hand, I feel bad blanking encyclopedic content without putting it somewhere interested people can still access it. In case anyone can find sources for this – particularly its methodology – or put up a stub on the historian or his findings, here are the "most common Chinese surnames"
according to Li Dongming (李栋明)'s 1977 article "Surnames" (《姓》) from Dongfang Magazine (《东方杂志》). — LlywelynII 03:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
A. Right now, there's just sources citing the Ministry reports. It would obviously be better if the initial press releases could be found at Xinhua or the ministry websites.
B. Right now, the US data is from the 2000 census and only refers to total API rather than self-identified Chinese; that could be improved. There should be a database somewhere (they've got the census collated and they've got numbers for Chinese), but damned if I can find it – and as near as I can tell, the Census didn't bother to do any work on this in 2000 either. They let RAND fund a study that analyzed their database, sth that might require a DC wikipedian to duplicate if it's even possible.
C. Removing a New York Times cite. Granted, partisan bickering aside, it seems bizarre to remove that and leave Xinhua, but at least Xinhua referred to a summary of a study by a gov't ministry. The cited NY Times article pulls its number seemingly from nowhere, while contradicting the far more thorough work (albeit on the 2000 census) found in the Census's RAND-funded study. The RAND study found all 151,000-odd surnames with 100+ bearers made up under 90% (spec. 89.8%) of the population; it seems highly dubious that the top 70,000 ate up the extra 15% within 10 years, even with influx from common Hispanic and Vietnamese surnames. — LlywelynII 05:49, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
In the Cantonese section under "Other", the superscript numbers are footnote references, not accents. Edits made on March 23, 2012 turned all numbers to superscript, breaking distinction between accents and footnotes. From what I see, everything in the Cantonese Other are footnotes; all other columns are accents.
How do we resolve this? Remove the footnote numbers in said column? Jigen III (talk) 05:07, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
I propose that User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames be merged into List of common Chinese surnames. I found this article while working on some of the articles that redirect to articles referenced in this article. The article on the "user space" was created back in 2006, and hasn't been edited since 2006 (until I posted the merger request on User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames). I believe the information found in User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames (even though a lot of the text in User:Felix Wan/Draft/List of common Chinese surnames can already be found in List of common Chinese surnames) could be added into the primary article to make this article even better.
P.S. I looked through all possible articles on Wikipedia regarding merging, and I could not find anything about a request like this (merging a user page into an article) not being allowed. If I am wrong, please let me know; I am open to discussion about this. Steel1943 (talk) 16:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Japanese people do not usually use surnames of Chinese origin. Should the Japanese romanizations of the last name be included on the list, as most Japanese people do not use any of the last names on the list?
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This list includes many intentional links to disambiguation pages. Disambiguation pages are not article pages about names. Almost all of these links should point to an article page such as those with a qualifier (Chinese surname), e.g., Song instead of the dab page. If there is no article page about the name, then these should either be unlinked or redlinked. If the intention is to show a redlink to a potential article page, then the qualifer (Chinese surname) should be added to the linik to avoid linking to the dab page. A pipe can of course hide the qualifier in the list. Coastside (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
According to 2018 data. I will be going through and creating entires for 101-200 and many of 201-300 as well, as well as filling in more information about origins, statistics and more for 1-100. As seen here:
100 most common family names in mainland China (2020) | |
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1–25 | |
26–50 | |
51–75 | |
76–100 | |
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—Prisencolin (talk) 08:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
The Japanese variations of the Chinese surnames are listed in the cells as "Jap." which happens to be a slur. The currently accepted abbrevation for Japan would be Jpn. 96.255.20.196 (talk) 17:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)