Wan (surname)

Wan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Man in Cantonese. It is listed 162nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[1] As of 2008, it is the 88th most common surname in China, shared by 2.4 million people.[2] The province with the most people having the surname is Anhui.[3] In 2011, of the top 30 cities in China it was the only the top ten surnames of Nanchang, where it is the fourth-most common name.[4]

Wan (万/萬)
PronunciationWàn (Mandarin)
Man (Cantonese)
Ban/Png (Hokkien)
Language(s)Chinese
Origin
Language(s)Old Chinese
Other names
Variant form(s)Man/Ban

Notable people

References

  1. "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
  2. 中国最新300大姓排名(2008) [300 most common surnames in China (2008)] (in Chinese). Taiwan.cn. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
  3. ""王"取代"李"成第一大姓氏". 网易新闻. 2013-04-15. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  4. https://www.douban.com/group/topic/23803598/
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