Around half of all documented Chinese last names are Compound last names (2 sylalbles or more). As of today, only less than 20 compound last names survives, which accounts only for 0.1% of China's total population.Out of the 2000 last names used by Han Chinese today, 19 last names are used by around half of the population. Around 200 last names are shared among 96% of the population, while 500 last names are shared by the other 4%
>>224538553LOTS of people with the exactly same name then. how do they deal with it?
>>224538553arr rook da same to me. also they're so obsessed with westernizing their names but their western name picking are commonly whore stage names like Candy Wang. (yes I know that because my classmate has that name)
>>224538611i don't think they have to, if anything they seems to want to assimilate into a larger population. None of the manchu last names survives today, all of them adopted a more common chinese last name. The former Qing imperial family was the Aisin Gioro, most of them changed their last name into jin, or stopped using last names altogether.
>>224538553crazy if true, my last name is unique to my family and isn't really too new
>>224538920>A Ming emperor conferred eight surnames upon the Jews. Other evidence points to 70–73 surnames. The late 1672 inscription states that at the synagogue's inception (1163) there were 73 clans (姓; xìng) and 500 families (家; jiā) in the Kaifeng Jewish community. The Hongzhi stele (1489) (弘治碑; hóngzhìbēi) registers the names of 14 clans.
>>224538920kk names are all made up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebraization_of_surnames
