Population distribution by surname

The number of people with the current surname has reached 14.52 million, making it the fifteenth surname in China, accounting for approximately 1.21 of the country’s population. In the past 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population with the Gao surname has surged from 930,000 to more than 14.5 million, a 15-fold increase. The average population of the Ming Dynasty was close to 93 million. The current population is 1.2 billion, which means the population has increased 13 times. The growth rate of the population with the surname surname is higher than that of China's population. The growth rate of the population with the surname surname in 1,000 was in a "V" shape. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in the three provinces of Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu, accounting for about 30% of the total population with the surname surname; followed by Hubei, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan, and Guangdong, with a further 31% concentrated in these five provinces. Shandong is home to 14.6% of the total population with the surname Gao, making it the largest province with the surname Gao, accounting for 2.3% of the total population of the province. China has formed areas with a high proportion of manuscripts in the Bohai Bay and eastern coastal areas. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of population flow with the surname Gua have been greatly different from those during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. In particular, the migration direction from the east to central and northern China has been greater than the migration from north to south and east. At the same time, , migration to the southwest and south has become an important flow of movement.