<html>
<head>
<style>
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Verdana
}
</style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
Hi,<br><br>Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions. <br><br>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<br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Taiwanese Chinese surname ranks (wiki)<br>
chen Li<br>
lin Wang<br>
huang Zhang<br>
zhang Liu<br>
li Chen<br>
wang Yang<br>
wu Huang<br>
liu Zhao<br>
cai Zhou<br>
yang Wu<br>
xu Xu<br>
zheng Sun<br>
xie Zhu<br>
guo Ma<br>
hong Hu</font><br><br /><hr />What can you do with the new Windows Live? <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx' target='_new'>Find out</a></body>
</html>