Don't ask me why, but I had to urge to look up the number of Chinese surnames: About 2000 are currently in use, half the Han Chinese population uses just 19 sur

Don't ask me why, but I had to urge to look up the number of Chinese surnames: About 2000 are currently in use, half the Han Chinese population uses just 19 surnames. Quite low compared to the 850 THOUSAND (another source has more than a million) surnames used in Germany, twice as much as in Spain bespite it have a tradition of double-names. I guess Germany being such a central state with many migration waves over the last 600~800 years since family names have become common.