#last name

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My last name was English.

#dream #last name #english

[erisnsn]

Harold Santos..

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[bluebellowl]

Hi @mynamesaplant !! I see you there! yes you! thank you for your kind tags, they really make my day uwu

(Post from tags in question: Baseball card Emmet)

Pfeiffer isn't random at all! Firstly it's a direct reference to the 1944 cult movie Feuerzangenbowle in which the main character, an adult writer, pretents to be a school boy and claims his name to be Hans Pfeiffer "Pfeiffer with three 'f'", to his unsuspecting teachers. Pfeiffer also means either piper (like the smoking pipe) or whistler, which I associated with the wistle going off shortly before a train departs.

The uniform I'm using for the submas is the 50s New York Yankees' bc y'know, the AU plays in the 50s so it'd be weird to use modern uniforms.

Hope that's answering some questions, have a great day! ;*

#Answering tags #submas #pokemon #subway master Ingo #Subway Boss Emmet #50s AU #last name #surname

[ourchunkysalsa]

claudia my beloved

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[legendarydragonperson]

they literally look like they're about to go FUCK in Eddie's big ass truck. And it's his turn to bottom.

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[redheddebeauty]

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[tattoorue]

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[queersrus]

I have a character named Arthur that currently has no last name. He comes from a small town, and works at his family’s trucking company. It’s difficult to describe, but something almost whimsical or even unmistakable when heard. Like that good old small town gossip about him using just his last name. Something oddly, magic sounding, but sticking to that small town name type of thing. So sorry for rambling, he’s just difficult to describe! Thanks! ^^

whimsical small town last names

starr

hart

fable

whaley

maebry

ostara

cassidy

ember

fischer

faolan

sheppard

weaver

cosima

nova

colby

cosmo

crispin

crosby

fairchild

starchild

mancer

merlin

mordred

argavain

lionel

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[il0vemyd0ggies]

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[dermy-der-demp]

hey, is there someone else in the saikik fandom that happens to forget that "kusuo" is actually his first name and not "saiki"? like everyone (with some excepcions) calls him "saiki",and when i see some post calling him kusuo is like "oops" i completely forgot that little detail sometimes

#Pinky things #Psiquic #Saiki #kusuo #the disastrous life of saiki k #Saik kusuo no psi nan #Names #Last name

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

#dart #sera sophia #merboy #merfolk #last name

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My TTRPG character’s last name was Bezos.

#dream #April 28th 2023 #Tabletop role-playing game #ttrpg #character #last name #bezos

[91-1lover]

#911 show #911 fox #911 lone star #incorrect 911 quotes #tk strand #tk x carlos #tk strand x carlos reyes #tk and carlos #owen and tk #owen strand #wedding #4x18 #last name #reyes-strand #strand-reyes

[linghxr]

Chinese Surname Ranking Analysis

According to this list, these are the top 10 surnames in China as of 2020*:

李 Lǐ

王 Wáng

张 Zhāng

刘 Liú

陈 Chén

杨 Yáng

赵 Zhào

黄 Huáng

周 Zhōu

吴 Wú

I’ve seen articles like this one discussing the regional distribution of surnames. I wanted to take a look myself and compare the top surnames in different provinces/municipalities. For instance, do any locations have a top 10 list that is the same as the overall country top 10? Which surname is ranked #1 in the most locations? Let’s explore and have some fun along the way.

*The top surnames for 西藏 Tibet are not included. I believe this is because the population is vast majority Tibetan.

1) Find how many surnames in a location’s top 10 are also in the national top 10.

Most in common

Arrows: grey = same as national rank, green = higher than national rank, red = lower than national rank Circles: orange = in national top 10 but missing from top 10 of individual location, blue = outside national top 10

四川 Sichuan - 9/10 surnames Missing: 赵 Zhào Added: 罗 Luó

贵州 Guizhou - 9/10 surnames Missing: 赵 Zhào Added: 罗 Luó

Fewest in common

浙江 Zhejiang - 6/10 surnames Missing: 杨 Yáng, 赵 Zhào, 黄 Huáng & 周 Zhōu Added: 林 Lín, 叶 Yè, 郑 Zhèng & 徐 Xú

广西 Guangxi - 6/10 surnames Missing list: 赵 Zhào, 黄 Huáng, 周 Zhōu & 吴 Wú Added: 梁 Liáng, 韦 Wéi, 陆 Lù & 卢 Lú

上海 Shanghai - 6/10 surnames Missing: 刘 Liú, 杨 Yáng, 赵 Zhào & 黄 Huáng Added: 朱 Zhū, 徐 Xú, 沈 Shěn & 陆 Lù

2) Find the average national rank for each location’s top 10 list.

OK, this section is a little confusing. Basically, I was thinking that just counting overlapping surnames this isn’t necessarily the best metric. When it comes to surnames outside the national top 10, just counting like I did above can’t distinguish a rank of 100 from a rank of 11! So I decided to take averages.

For each location, I found the national rank of the its top 10 surnames and averaged them. This should give me an idea of which location’s top 10 surnames collectively rank the highest in the whole country. If you add up 1-10 and divide by 10, you get an average of 5.5, so that would be the minimum possible average. 

Lowest average

Highlighting: red = lower than national rank, green = higher than national rank, no highlighting = same as national rank Blue circling = outside of national top 10 Annotated numbers = national rank

湖北 Hubei - 6.2 average Outside national top 10: 胡 Hú & 徐 Xú

安徽 Anhui - 6.3 average Outside national top 10: 徐 Xú & 孙 Sūn

江苏 Jiangsu - 6.5 average Outside national top 10: 徐 Xú & 朱 Zhū

Highest average

海南 Hainan - 30.5 average Outside national top 10: 符 Fú, 林 Lín & 郑 Zhèng

广西 Guangxi - 28.2 average Outside national top 10: 梁 Liáng, 韦 Wéi, 陆 Lù & 卢 Lú

上海 Shanghai - 16.2 average Outside national top 10: 朱 Zhū, 徐 Xú, 沈 Shěn & 陆 Lù

3) Add the difference in rank of surnames for each location to create a composite score.

Then I started to think about order within the top 10. After all, a province for which 李 Lǐ ranks #10 should be treated differently from one where 李 Lǐ is #1. So I wanted to capture the difference between a surname’s national rank and its rank for individual locations.

For example, in 广东 Guangdong, 陈 Chén ranks #1, but it’s #5 in the whole country. The difference is 5 - 1 = 4. I did this for the other 9 surnames in 广东 Guangdong’s top 10 as well and added the numbers to get a composite score. Then I repeated this for the other locations.

I used absolute values—otherwise a positive difference and negative difference would offset each other! But I used + and - signs in the images below to show more information. You could also divided by 10 to get the average difference for the top 10 surnames each location.

Lowest score

Highlighting: red = lower than national rank, green = higher than national rank, no highlighting = same as national rank Blue circling = outside of national top 10 Annotated numbers = difference b/t national rank and local rank, with (+) indicating a higher rank locally and (-) indicating a lower rank locally

安徽 Anhui - 14 score

四川 Sichuan - 15 score

宁夏 Ningxia - 20 score

Highest score

海南 Hainan - 264 score

广西 Guangxi - 253 score

山西 Shanxi - 113 score

上海 Shanghai - 113 score

4) For each location, determine how many surnames have no difference in rank.

As an extension of the above, for each location, I counted the number of top 10 surnames that had no difference in rank compared to the national rank. Let’s look closer at locations whose top 10 lists had the fewest changes:

四川 Sichuan - 6 surnames 李 Lǐ, 刘 Liú, 陈 Chén, 杨 Yáng, 黄 Huáng & 吴 Wú

青海 Qinghai - 4 surnames 李 Lǐ, 刘 Liú, 杨 Yáng & 吴 Wú

云南 Yunnan - 4 surnames 李 Lǐ, 陈 Chén, 赵 Zhào & 周 Zhōu

重庆 Chongqing - 4 surnames 李 Lǐ, 刘 Liú, 杨 Yáng & 黄 Huáng

I’ll also list the locations for which no surnames had the same rank as in the top 10:

广东 Guangdong

福建 Fujian

江西 Jiangxi

江苏 Jiangsu

贵州 Guizhou

Summary: Which location’s top 10 is closest to the national top 10?

We just saw several different ways of looking at this. Someone who is better at math than I am would probably devise a way to combine the different metrics into a single score. I’m just going to recap which locations we saw appear the most.

Overall most similar: 四川 Sichuan & 安徽 Anhui

Overall least similar: 广西 Guangxi, 上海 Shanghai & 海南 Hainan

5) Find which surnames appear on the most and least location top 10 lists.

This wasn’t something I was initially curious about, but after my analyses above, I grew curious. I’m just looking at the national top 10 surnames here. There are 30 locations total, so 30 is the highest possible number.

So 李 Lǐ and 张 Zhāng are the only two that appear in the top 10 for all 30 locations!

I also thought it would be interesting to see which locations are missing for the surnames that were close to 30/30:

陈 Chén - 29/30 Missing: 新疆 Xinjiang

王 Wáng - 28/30 Missing: 广东 Guangdong & 广西 Guangxi

刘 Liú - 28/30 Missing: 海南 Hainan & 上海 Shanghai

杨 Yáng - 26/30 Missing: 海南 Hainan, 浙江 Zhejiang, 江西 Jiangxi & 上海 Shanghai

6) Which surname ranks 1st in the most locations?

This questions grew pretty naturally off of the question above. I spent far too long making this map to go along with the numbers!

The winner is...王 Wáng with 15 locations! It’s so interesting to see how 王 Wáng is dominant in the north, 陈 Chén rules the southern coast, etc.

王 Wáng - 1st in 15 locations

李 Lǐ - 1st in 6 locations

陈 Chén - 1st in 4 locations

张 Zhāng - 1st in 3 locations

刘 Liú - 1st in 1 location

黄 Huáng - 1st in 1 location

The winner is...王 Wáng with 15 locations!

7) Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Hong Kong

I thought this would be an interesting comparison. I wanted to include Macau as well, but I had difficulty finding a list. Here is the Hong Kong data source.

Arrows: green = higher than Mainland rank, red = lower than Mainland rank Circles: orange = in Mainland top 10 but missing from the HK and/or TW top 10, blue = outside Mainland top 10

I was actually surprised how similar the top 10s are for Taiwan and Hong Kong!

I also wanted to compare Taiwan and Hong Kong to Fujian and Guangdong, respectively. These are the two provinces in Mainland China that they are closest to.

Now, I’m no history expert, but I know that a lot of Taiwanese have roots in Fujian, so it makes a lot of sense that their top 10 lists look so similar. I don’t know much about the history of migration to Hong Kong, but as such a major economic center, I’m guessing people from all over China came to Hong Kong.

Thank you!

If you actually read this whole post, I’m impressed. Thank you! 

I initially began working on this post in September 2021. Needless to say, this post ended up being a lot longer and taking up a lot more of my time than I had anticipated. I asked my dad to read over an earlier draft of this post for me, and he literally asked me, “why are you doing this?” I didn’t really have a concrete answer. I just thought it would be interesting to explore surnames a bit. And so here we are :)

Extended list - 大陆25大姓氏

李 Lǐ

王 Wáng

张 Zhāng

刘 Liú

陈 Chén

杨 Yáng

赵 Zhào

黄 Huáng

周 Zhōu

吴 Wú

徐 Xú

孙 Sūn

胡 Hú

朱 Zhū

高 Gāo

林 Lín

何 Hé

郭 Guō

马 Mǎ

罗 Luó

梁 Liáng

宋 Sòng

郑 Zhèng

谢 Xiè

韩 Hán

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[daily-spanish-word]

last name, surname el apellido

Imagine Apple’s CEO changing his last name to Apple, just to avoid any confusion: ‘Tim Apple’.

Spaniards have two surnames. Los españoles tienen dos apellidos.

Picture by Daniel Lobo on Flickr

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[legendarydragonperson]

I know she's an awful media trained person, low-key homophobic, 'boobalious' is crazy and #pushupbra and #notusedtoit is wild but I am a lesbian

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