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The surname Ran is a nobleman.

The surname Ran originates from the Gaoxin family, which comes after Emperor Ku, and is a surname based on the name of an ancient tribe. According to the "Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames", when Emperor Ku was the leader of the Yandi tribal alliance, his subordinate alliance was composed of eight large tribes, including the Ran tribe. Ran clan members have been called Ran clan for generations, which is one of the very ancient surnames.

The migration distribution of the Ran surname:

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Ran surname was one of the surnames of the immigrants from Hongdong Dahuai tree, and was divided into Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Gansu and other places. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu and Qing armies massacred Sichuan, causing a sharp decline in the population of Sichuan. Later, Huguang occupied Sichuan, and people with the surname Ran from Hubei and Hunan moved to present-day Sichuan and Chongqing.

After the Kangxi and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, people surnamed Ran from Hebei, Henan, and Shandong broke into Guandong and entered the Northeast. Today, the surname Ran is widely distributed across the country, especially in Sichuan and Chongqing, accounting for about 49% of the country's Han population with the surname Ran. It is also common in Guizhou and Hebei. People from the above four places have the surname Ran. The surname Ran accounts for about 79% of the Han population in the country.