Chang (surname)
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Cháng is a Chinese surname
. It was ranked the 87th most common Chinese surname in 2006.
Chinese surname
Chinese family names have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and among overseas Chinese communities. In ancient times two types of surnames, family names and clan names , existed.The colloquial expressions laobaixing...
. It was ranked the 87th most common Chinese surname in 2006.
Prominent people with Chinese family name 常
- Chang YuchunChang YuchunChang Yuchun , style name Boren and pseudonym Yanheng , was a Chinese Muslim military general. He was a follower of the Ming Dynasty's founder, Zhu Yuanzhang, and contributed greatly to the founding of the dynasty...
, 常遇春 (1330–1369) Ming DynastyMing DynastyThe Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
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See also
- List of common Chinese surnames
- Zhang (surname)Zhang (surname)Zhang is among the most common Chinese surnames. In the 1990 edition of Guinness Book of Records, it was listed as the world's most common surname, with over 100 million people worldwide with this surname. It was also ranked third in the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Academy of...
, , sometimes transliterated "Chang" - Chinese family name 章, likewise transliterated "Zhang" or "Chang"