The pre-qin period, the high (high) surname activity areas mainly in shandong area, after the west into the region in shaanxi province.Qin and han dynasties, the high (high) name is flying south jianghuai region, settled in a developing fastest in shaoxing, zhejiang province, in the northern and southern dynasties formed the famous Wu Xingqiu surname family, the high (high) surname subject has been in from the central plains and north jiangnan.To the tang and song dynasties, the high (high) surname in north China, central China, sichuan and other places have distribution, and the song dynasty when the high (high) name has become the most popular in jiangsu and zhejiang, fujian, widely distributed in the south country.In Taiwan, at the beginning of the qing dynasty famous has become Taiwan's most popular.At the beginning of the republic of China in the late qing dynasty, the southern qiusheng offered to restore high surname first, so that in contemporary Chinese exist at the same time the high high two, the surname, but most are still high as surname.

Contemporary high (high) name of nearly 3.8 million population, for the sixty-fifth surname, accounts for about 0.3% of the population.