page_title: List of common Chinese surnames
section_title: Singapore
hierarchical_section_title: List of common Chinese surnames / Singapore
caption_attribution_description: English: &#160;&#160; Tan &#160;&#160; Lim &#160;&#160; Lee &#160;&#160; Ng &#160;&#160; Ong &#160;&#160; Wong &#160;&#160; Goh &#160;&#160; Chua &#160;&#160; Chan &#160;&#160; Koh &#160;&#160; Teo &#160;&#160; Ang &#160;&#160; Yeo &#160;&#160; Tay &#160;&#160; Ho &#160;&#160; Low &#160;&#160; Toh &#160;&#160; Sim &#160;&#160; Chong &#160;&#160; Chia/Seah &#160;&#160; Other
context_page_description: These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in mainland China, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by authoritative government or academic sources. Chinese names also form the basis for many common Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese surnames and to an extent Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages.
  The conception of China as consisting of the "old 100 families" is an ancient and traditional one, the most notable tally being the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames. Even today, the number of surnames in China is a little over 4,000, while the year 2000 US census found there are more than 6.2 million surnames altogether and that there were 150,000 American surnames held by at least 100 people.
  The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China and Chen in Taiwan.
context_section_description: Ethnic Chinese make up almost three-fourths (2009) of Singapore's resident population of nearly four million (2011).
  According to Statistics Singapore, as of the year 2000, the most common Chinese Singaporean names were:
  Do take note that the 7th most common surname in China, 趙/赵, is extremely rare in Singapore.
  The surname list is not accurate, as the English surnames may actually have many variants not listed above. E.g. The 16th surname 'Low' can be 劉/刘, 廖,卢 or 羅/罗 in Chinese. The 1st surname Tan (陳/陈) is also a pinyin romanisation for the locally rare surname (谈/談) or (譚/谭).
caption: Chinese Singaporean surnames by frequency:          Tan (9.5%)   Lim (6.6%)   Lee (4.5%)   Ng (4.2%)   Ong (2.7%)   Wong (2.6%)   Goh (2.2%)      Chua (2.2%)   Chan (1.9%)   Koh (1.9%)   Teo (1.9%)   Ang (1.7%)   Yeo (1.5%)   Tay (1.4%)       Chong (0.9%)   Chia/Seah (0.9%)   Other (48.8%)
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