1, from Gui

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Kai was a descendant of Gui, and Sun was a descendant named Sun Zhuangbo, whose real name was Sun Zhuangbo. At that time, Wang Fu was the surname, but in ancient times, "Ai" and "Yuan" were synonyms with the same pronunciation, and even the usage was similar, so in the end, the descendants of Ai changed their names to Ai and evolved into Yuan.

2. Originated from Xuanyuan family-Yuan Yi.

Another view is that the Yuan family may have a certain relationship with the descendants of Xuanyuan, the clan that was the best at making cars in ancient times. Because of the uprising, Emperor Yan was overthrown, and all of them took cars as their camp, and finally established the capital with bears as their land. Therefore, the locals took the city as their surname and called it Yuanxing, so they called it "Xingyuan". After several generations of evolution, the Yuan family was finally formed.

3. It originated from Yuan Kui, the county magistrate of Ming Dynasty.

There are few branches of Yuan surname in this article. According to the Ming History, during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Kui, the magistrate of Hongdong County in Dongming, Shandong Province, was very kind, which happened to be a famine year, so hundreds of children were adopted. After leaving office, the biological parents of these children changed their children's surnames to Yuan in order to thank them for their support, and later generations also called themselves descendants of Yuan.

4. Ethnic minorities change their surnames.

Like the origin and origin of Zhao's surname, Yuan's surname has been changed by many ethnic minorities, including Manchu, Mongolian, Xianbei, Yao and so on. Among them, Xianbei nationality was mainly changed from Tuoba, the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Some of his descendants were simplified to Yuan, while others were mistakenly changed to Yuan.

Population distribution:

Nowadays, Yuan people are widely distributed in China, especially in Sichuan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces, accounting for about 54% of the total population of the Han nationality Yuan. Yuan is ranked 59th and 33rd among the hundreds of surnames in China today, with a population of about 7 million, accounting for 0.54% of the Han population in China.

On June 5438+ 10, 2022, the Population Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security released the national name report of 202 1. The province with the largest distribution of Yuan surname is Sichuan Province.