Contemporary surnamed ren's population has reached 4.2 million, was the 59th surname, accounts for about 0.34% of the population.Since the Ming dynasty 600 years surnamed ren's population increased from 310000 to 420, increased by about 13 times more, surnamed ren population growth with the population growth rate are basically the same.In the national distribution mainly focused on the four provinces of henan, hebei, shanxi, shandong, some of the country's name is 39% of the total population.Secondly distributed in shaanxi, liaoning, sichuan, anhui, jiangsu, surnamed ren and in the five provinces of the concentration of 27%.Henan province is the first big province, surnamed ren accounted for much of the country name is 11% of the total population.National formed to prepare JiJin lu as the center of the north as the layout of the area, south of the Yangtze river less surnamed.

During the period of nearly 600 years, surnamed ren's flow characteristic is from the southeast to the central China, north China strongly returned.Surnamed ren distribution frequency diagram shows that in the crowd at the most, the Beijing and tianjin, shanxi jin ji lu yu, liaoning most, most of the southeast and central Inner Mongolia, ningxia, north eastern gansu, hubei, surnamed ren accounted for more than 0.63% of the population, the central region can reach more than 1.5%, the area accounted for about 18.3% of the total land area, about 51% surnamed ren group.In most of the southeast, south of shandong, henan, hubei, anhui north Sue, each, in central north and west most of yunnan, guizhou, gansu, Inner Mongolia, jilin northeast, surnamed ren generally accounted for between 0.42% 0.63% of the population, its coverage area accounted for about 18% of the total land area, about 26% surnamed ren group.