All Chinese surnames
万
Wan
万 · traditionally 萬 — Wàn
The 91st most common surname in China
About 2.54 million people in mainland China, 0.19% of the population (Yuan Yida 袁义达 and Qiu Jiaru 邱家儒, 中国四百大姓, 2013); an earlier ranking put it at 2.4 million and 88th (中国最新300大姓排名, Taiwan.cn, 2008 data, published 2009). Sources disagree on the province with the most bearers, naming Jiangxi and Anhui.
May 27, 2026
The same name, spelled differently
A Chinese surname is a character, not a spelling. The Latin letters on a passport come from whichever dialect the name was written down from — so these are all 万.
- WanMandarin — mainland China, Taiwan
- ManCantonese and Hakka — Hong Kong and Macau, where it is indistinguishable from 文 Wén
- BanMin Nan — Malaysia and Singapore
- BuangMin Nan — Malaysia and Singapore
- VạnVietnamese
The character
Outside a name, 万 is an ordinary word meaning ten thousand.
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 一
- Traditional
- 萬
- As a word
- wàn
Words built from 万
The character does ordinary work in the language too. Each of these is a real word you can look up.