Do you know how many surnames there are in China?

China is the first country in the world to use surnames, with a history of more than 5,000 years. There are many Chinese surnames. According to the "Chinese Surname Dictionary", there are as many as 24,000 surnames recorded in Chinese characters by various ethnic groups from ancient times to the present. In the process of development and evolution, some of these surnames have disappeared in the long history, while others have been passed down from generation to generation, gradually forming more than 6,000 surnames currently in use.
Ranked by the number of registered residents, the "Hundred Family Surnames" in 2020 have not changed much compared with 2019. "Wang", "Li", "Zhang", "Liu" and "Chen" are still among the top five, and the total population of the five major surnames accounts for 30.8% of the total registered population in the country.