High surname is 15 big surname, in today's China has 1.21% of the population of the han nationality population, distribution is very wide, in shandong, AnWei, jiangsu, hubei, hebei, henan, sichuan is more, the seven provinces high's family name is about the high 55% of the population, in Taiwan for 30 most popular.High is not only the han nationality most popular, but also some ancient minority cadres use surnames.Show, for example, let's high from the han dynasty xiongnu after the words of the king, high XuanGuanHou could, by called surname;The sixteen when later yan gao yun for MuRongBao adopted son, his father and for teams of koguryo ordinary high, since the call Gao Yangshi (i.e., the ancient emperor ZhuanXu) branch, therefore to Gao Weishi;According to the annals, clan ", liaodong feather real surname after gause instead of Korea;According to "wei book, officer's ambition", northern wei emperor xiaowen move capital luoyang, will of xianbei ethnic minority group is Knowles gause instead;According to the book of beiqi, beiqi followers give wen yuan JingAn, yuan yao are gause;And beiqi, projecting, this name is xu, because of his father and Gao Huan thick, hence to gause;Xixia had high's song dynasty,When the northern song dynasty settled the descendants of the kaifeng jews have high surname;Gold in the bohai sea jurchen have high surname;Jurchen Ge Shi Lie surname, lang (aka the lazy), Chinese surname is high;Give they judged the yuan Ming dynasty frontal miles sound bo luo gao li;The Ming and qing, yunnan Yao Anfu local and soil according to mill, the chuxiong mansion local, TongZhi Yao Zhou soil, heqing military and civilian government soil magistrate, the commander of TongZhi soil, soil and soil tong, tong TongZhi in soil, the judge north - year state soil, soil, guangxi province soil tour made, are surnamed gao, bai,Lived in shenyang, liaoyang, the manchurian qing has high surname;In the qing dynasty manchu eight banners surnamed gao jia's, Hector shed on the Richter scale, tunggiya, Guo Luo roche, after all the surname is high;12 to lay leader, ling yi in the qing dynasty jiaqing years joins with high surname;Yunnan to chicken for the primitive totem bai clan. Chinese surname is high;Yugur hubei, Gail's Chinese surname is high;Hainan east county "侾 inflammation" dialect li surname, slanting, Chinese surname is high;Xibo sudden ceausescu's Chinese surname is high;Full, jing, yi, miao, zhuang, yao, li, hani, Mongolia, tujia, dongxiang, Korea, Taiwan indigenous peoples have high surname.

In Japan during the occupation of Taiwan, the Taiwan high surname was forced to switch to the wild, mountain, plateau, azusa, ghosn, kaolinite, Gao Pu, highlights the day higher in Japan, the surname, Taiwan aboriginal was forced to use yaskawa, tolo, hotan, if village, shimazaki, maruyama, yuasa, Japan's surname.After Taiwan in 1945, the Taiwan high surname name is abolished the use of Japan, to restore the original high surname;Taiwan indigenous to choose Chinese surname is high.