[Corpora-List] Chinese name frequencies

[Jerry Kurjian]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions.  

I haven't been able to find a data set for mainland surnames.  I did, however, come across a data set of Chinese names in Taiwan (http://technology.chtsai.org/namelist), which is based on college entrance exam name lists from 1994 to 2008.  The rankings between the Taiwanese and wiki list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames) is somewhat different, see below.  If I come across a more representative data set of mainland China names, I will post it.  - Jerry

Taiwanese               Chinese surname ranks (wiki)

chen                       Li

lin                          Wang

huang                     Zhang

zhang                     Liu

li                            Chen

wang                      Yang

wu                         Huang

liu                          Zhao

cai                         Zhou

yang                      Wu

xu                          Xu

zheng                      Sun

xie                         Zhu

guo                        Ma

hong                       Hu

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