How many people are there in the Qin family?

Qin surname is a common surname in China, with a population of 3-3.5 million, ranking between 50th-100th in the national surname population ranking (there is no exact data to say 78th), and it belongs to a medium population.

Qin surname is a surname with many origins, not the same family. In history, many nationalities and families have evolved into Qin family, and the main schools are: Qin family of Ji, Qin family of Zhao, Qin family of Manchu (Jurchen), Qin family of Mongolia and Qin family of Rome.

The main source of the Qin family of Han nationality is the Qin family of Ji, whose ancestors are descendants. As a Duke of Lu, he was named "Qin" (Old Town Village, Fan County, Henan Province) and called Qin by Yi surname, which is the orthodoxy of Qin in China. Representative figures are Qin Yueren (Bian Que), Qin Kai and Qin Wuyang. Therefore, the Qin surname of the Han nationality originated in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Another is the tiller from Zhao: after the demise of the Qin Dynasty, some descendants of the royal family (the monarch of Qin belongs to Zhao's ordinary family) changed from "taking the country as the surname" to "Qin's". The historical data of the Tang Dynasty, Yuan He's usurpation of the throne, records: "Boyi was born a grandson, Zhou was named Qin, and Longxi Qin Pavilion was also established. The emperor destroyed the six countries, Zi Ying surrendered to Han, and the descendants took the country as their surname. "

The Qin nationality of Jurchen nationality, Manchu nationality and Mongolian nationality belongs to the product of ethnic integration and sinicization. The Qin family of Rome is a descendant of immigrants from the Roman Empire living in China.