Contemporary family name of the population has reached more than 410, for the sixty-third surname, accounts for about 0.33% of the population.Since the Ming dynasty in 600, the Chinese name of population increased from 440000 to 4.3 million, increased by nearly 10 times.At present in the national distribution mainly concentrates in three provinces of anhui, zhejiang, henan, about 37% of the party name is population, second distribution in guangdong, hubei, liaoning, fujian, hunan, the five provinces and concentrated 33% of the name of population.

For contemporary family name is the first province in anhui, living the party name is 15% of the total population.The country formed a YuE, for instance, two pieces of the name of concentrated areas of anhui and zhejiang.

Surname is in yunnan region in the east, southeast, one of the more common surname.In anhui su most zhejiang-jiangxi fujian, Shanghai, Taiwan, southeast of henan, hubei, the eastern j most of southern east of guangdong, guangxi, yunnan, western liaoning, the name of the local population, generally over 0.45%, central region more than 1.7%, its coverage area is about 12.5% of the total area of the country, about 57% of the party's name is people to live.In southern and eastern in anhui and north jiangsu, henan, west hubei, chongqing north central, north and southeast hunan, guangdong, hainan, most, in the west of guangxi, yunnan, most of the east and northwest, southwest of gansu, liaoning, black southeast east, Inner Mongolia, the name of the local population, generally between 0.3% 0.45%, the area covered by about 12.7% of the total area of the country, about 20% of the party's name is people to live.