How many surnames does China have?

The population of contemporary Fu surname has reached 6.14 million, which is the 36th largest surname in China, accounting for about .51% of the national population. Over the past 6 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Fu has increased from 44, to 6.14 million, about 14 times. The population of the whole country has increased 13 times. The growth rate of Fu's population is slightly higher than that of the whole country. At present, it is mainly concentrated in Shandong [13%] and Hunan [11.5%], accounting for about 24.5% of the total number of Fu surnames in China. Secondly, Fu's surname in Yunnan [9.1%], Anhui [8.1%], Zhejiang [6.3%], Fujian [6.2%], Jiangxi [6.1%], Sichuan [5.6%] and Hebei [5.1%] reached 46.5%. Shandong is the largest province with Fu surname, accounting for .8% of the total population. The whole country has formed three areas with Fu surname: North Shandong, South Hunan and Southwest Yunnan. In the past 6 years, the degree and direction of Fu's population movement are very different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The migration from the east to Central China and North China has been greater than that from the north to the southeast. At the same time, the migration to the west and southwest has become an important migration flow.

The distribution frequency of contemporary Fu's surname is the highest in most of the four provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi, western Fujian, eastern Hunan, southwestern Yunnan, western Liaoning and eastern Heilongjiang. The population of Fu's surname per square kilometer is more than 1.5, and the highest in the central area is more than 3. The schematic diagram of distribution density of Fu surname shows that: The area with the highest density [more than 1.5 people/square kilometer] only accounts for 1.5% of the land area, and the population of Fu is about 1.897 million. .5-1.5 people/km2, accounting for 37.5% of the land area, and the population of Fu is about 3.375 million; The area with less than .5 people per square kilometer accounts for 52% of the national territory, and the population of Fu is about 868,.