Ranking of rare surnames in China, more details↑

1. The surname Kuai

The surname Kuang (Kuang Kuang) is only found in the urban area of ??Anyang, Henan Province. It originated from the late Qing Dynasty. It is only a century old and has a population of only a few dozen people. and migration failure. According to census data and sample survey data from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the four smallest surnames pronounced "Ya", "Sheng", "Nan", and "Kui" are among the four smallest surnames. Among them, the surname "Kui" with the smallest number of people has only less than a hundred people, ranking among the " "China's smallest surname" tops the list. Experts believe that the character "kui" in the surname Kuang was formed by a misspelling of the character "kuang" in the surname Kuang. Therefore, the Kuang surname is a branch of the Kuang surname.

2. The surname Jiang

Many surnames in ancient times are related to skills. This surname Jiang was changed by a person who was excellent at making soy sauce. In the "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea" Among several surnames, the surname Jiang is even rarer than the surname Yan, and is also the hardest to find. According to statistics in 2007, there were less than 100 people with the surname Jiang. During a survey, through unremitting search, 14 people were finally found, six of whom were male. Eight girls, and what's interesting is that even with such a rare surname, there are still people with the same name. Among the 14 people, 2 are named Jiang Doufu.

3. The surname Nan

Nannan is pronounced as nìng, not nán. The Nan family is a very ancient surname, originating from the Tunan tribe of the ancient Xianbei nation. Most of the tribesmen migrated to North Korea, with very few remaining in China. Now they have changed their surnames to single surnames in Chinese characters such as Nan and Shan. In 1997, an ancient stone tablet from the Southern and Northern Dynasties period was unearthed in Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. It records the deeds of an ancient Xianbei official. His name was "Nanlou" and his descendants lived and multiplied in the Wuzhi area. There are four small villages of the Nan family in Wuzhi County today. All the villagers, men, women, old and young, all have the surname "Nan".

4. The Shi surname

The Shi surname is a very ancient Xianbei surname. It has been sinicized during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the people have integrated into the Han nationality, but the population is very sparse. According to the survey results of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shi family is ranked second to last among the three minor surnames including "Nan (pronounced with a negative tone)" and "Shan (yà, also pronounced as shān, both surnames)". There are about a thousand people, only scattered in Luoyang City, Kaifeng City in present-day Henan Province, and Wuzhong City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. However, the Death clan is sparsely populated.

5. It is written as 山下hill, pronounced as yà

This surname was created by Yuan Yida, an expert in genetics and developmental biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, when he was studying the rarest surname in China. The research team was in Anhui It was accidentally discovered in Woyang County of Guangdong Province and Zhangwu County of Liaoning Province that there were about 2,000 people. These people all know the origin of their surnames and claim that they are direct descendants of Yue Fei. When Yue Fei's descendants were persecuted by Qin Hui and fled, they turned the character "Yue" upside down to escape persecution and formed this new surname.