Ran (surname)

Ran (冉)
Pronunciation Ran (Mandarin)
Language(s) Chinese
Origin
Language(s) Old Chinese
Other names
Variant(s) Jan

Ran is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.[1] As of 2008, it is the 178th most common surname in China, shared by 670,000 people.[2]

Notable people

References

  1. "百家姓" [Hundred Family Surnames] (in Chinese). Guoxue. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
  2. 中国最新300大姓排名(2008) [300 most common surnames in China (2008)] (in Chinese). Taiwan.cn. 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
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