Editing Chinese surname (section)

===Taiwan===
{{main|List of common Taiwanese surnames}}
[[File:Taiwanese surnames by frequency.png|thumb|300px|Distribution of Taiwanese surnames{{colbegin}}{{legend|#3266cc|陳 Chen (11.06%)}}
{{legend|#dc3812|林 Lin (8.28%)}}
{{legend|#fe9900|黃 Huang (6.01%)}}
{{legend|#109619|張 Chang (5.26%)}}
{{legend|#990099|李 Lee (5.11%)}}
{{legend|#0099c5|王 Wang (4.12%)}}
{{legend|#dd4578|吳 Wu (4.04%)}}
{{legend|#66aa00|劉 Liu (3.17%)}}
{{legend|#b82e2e|蔡 Tsai (2.91%)}}
{{legend|#316394|楊 Yang (2.66%)}}
{{legend|#994499|Other (47.4%)}}{{colend}}]]
Names in Taiwan{{spaced ndash}}both among the immigrant [[Han Chinese|ethnic Chinese]] and [[Naming customs of Taiwanese indigenous peoples|indigenous Taiwanese people]]{{spaced ndash}}are similar to those in southeast China but differ somewhat from the distribution of names among all Han Chinese. According to a comprehensive survey of residential permits released by the Taiwanese [[Ministry of the Interior (Taiwan)|Ministry of the Interior]]'s Department of Population in February 2005,<ref name="TaiRank">中华百家姓-千字文-国学经典-文化经典. "[http://wuyilaoren.blog.163.com/blog/static/165227073201058925589/ 中国台湾姓氏排行] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016145747/http://wuyilaoren.blog.163.com/blog/static/165227073201058925589/ |date=16 October 2013 }} [China (Taiwanese) Surname Ranking]." 8 June 2010. Accessed 31 March 2012. {{in lang|zh}}</ref> the ten most common surnames in Taiwan are [[Chen (surname)|Chen]] (陳), [[Lin (surname)|Lin]] (林), [[Huang (surname)|Huang]] (黃), [[Zhang (surname)|Chang or Zhang]] (張), [[Li (surname 李)|Lee or Li]] (李), [[Wang (surname)|Wang]] (王), [[Wu (surname)|Wu]] (吳), [[Liu (surname)|Liu]] (劉), [[Cai (surname)|Tsai]] (蔡), and [[Yang (surname)|Yang]] (楊).

Taiwanese surnames include some local variants like [[Tu (surname)|Tu]] (塗), which do not even appear among the ''[[Hundred Family Surnames]]'', as well as a number of recently created names that are fusions of various conventional surnames like Changchien (張簡) and Chiangfan (姜范). However, names in Taiwan show less diversity than China as a whole: the top ten comprise 52.63% of the Taiwanese population and the top hundred 96.11%.<ref name="TaiRank"/> There were also only 1,989 surnames recorded by the Ministry's survey,<ref name="TaiRank"/> against China's four or five thousand.

As is typical of China as a whole, these surnames conflate many different lineages and origins, although tradition may bind them to the same [[ancestral temple]]s and rituals or [[incest taboo|ban intermarriage]]. For example, some Taiwanese converts to [[Presbyterian Church in Taiwan|Presbyterianism]] adopted the name Kai (偕, [[pinyin]] ''Xié'') in honor of the Canadian missionary [[George Leslie Mackay]] (馬偕, [[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]] ''Má-kai'').{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}