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Taiwanese names generally follow exactly the same format of a Chinese name. That means a family name plus a given name. Most family names are of Chinese origin and consists of only one character. The majority of people have two-character given names. However, one-character given names are also not very rare.

Since the ancestors of today's majority Taiwanese were migrated from many regions of China in multiple batches, their descendants' names may reflect their ethnic background. This is not always true and very frequently simply misleading. Today's parents usually name their children from a pool of characters generally considered proper. For example, , , , , , , , , , are more frequently used than others. These characters are usually widely used in China and other Chinese-speaking parts of the world.

The aboriginal peoples have their own neglected naming conventions. They were required to abandon their adopted Japanese names and adopt Chinese names after the World War II. Nowadays, they can legally restore their own tribal names but this option is seldom used. Not unlike Native Americans who adopted European names, these aboriginal peoples adopted Chinese names as a way of survival.

1 Han-Chinese names

1.1 Family names

Taiwanese family names of the Han Chinese heritage are nearly all Chinese family names, particularly of southeast Chinese subset. As such, Taiwanese family names are almost all mono-syllable, each of which consists of one traditional Chinese character. Most families still have family trees that are traceable to their origins such as FujianFujian (; alternate spellings Fukien Foukien pinyin Fujian Wade-Giles Fu-chien local transliteration Hokkien from Min-nan Hok-kian is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. The name Fujian comes from the combination of Fuzhou and Jian'ou, t and GuangdongGuangdong ( Traditional: , Simplified Chinese: , pinyin: Guangdong , Kwangtung in older transliteration and Kuang-tung in Wade-Giles), is a province on the south coast of the People's Republic of China. Together, Guangdong and neighboring Guangxi are call, although some scholars believe some descendents of the Plains Aborigines might have fabricated their genealogy as a part of the assimilation process. The distribution of family names in Taiwan as a whole differs somewhat from the general distribution of names among Han Chinese, with the family name Chen (陳) particularly common (generally about 11%). Local variations also exist.

In fact, the lists of most popular first names in Taiwan and China are about the same. Eight out of ten of them are on both lists.

One other important aspect of Taiwan was that because it was a migrant society in which disasters were common, family lineages in Taiwan have many more examples of adoption than in other Han Chinese societies.

As a result of the post-WW II Mandarin promotion policy, and unlike their linguistic kins in the ethnic-Chinese commmunities of Southeast Asia, the vast majority of Taiwanese today romanize their names in MandarinThis article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. For the standardized spoken Chinese language, see Standard Mandarin. Mandarin or Beifanghua (literally "Northern speech"), is a category of Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southw pronounciation, as was required by the Government in the recent past. Thus, a Taiwanese of Hoklo descent who has the family name of 陳 will typically romanise it as "Chen" rather than "Tan", as is common in Southeast Asia. People who were migrated from other parts of China use Mandarin as well.

The romanization usually used by Taiwanese is based on Wades-Giles which can be easily distinguished from the Hanyu Pinyin used for romanization in Mainland ChinaAll islands except Hainan and Taiwan are invisible on the map. Mainland China ( or , pinyin: Zhongguo Dalu, lit. The Chinese Massive Landmass" or "Continental China"), is an informal geographical term which is usually synonymous with the area currently ad and SingaporeThe Republic of Singapore ( Chinese , pinyin: Xinjiapo Gonghegu Malay Republik Singapura Tamil , Cingkappur Kudiyarasu , is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsul by the lack of the use of "q", "zh", and "x" and the inclusion of hyphens. Unlike Mainland ChinaAll islands except Hainan and Taiwan are invisible on the map. Mainland China ( or , pinyin: Zhongguo Dalu, lit. The Chinese Massive Landmass" or "Continental China"), is an informal geographical term which is usually synonymous with the area currently ad, one can often find non-standard romanizations such as Lee or Soong, and other ideosyncratic variants.

Among the Taiwanese Presbyterian Christians, the family name 偕 (Kai) is of particular interest as an example of a Chinese-like surname with a non-Chinese root. According to the clan's tradition, the name was adopted to honor the Canadian missionary George Leslie Mackay, also known as Má-kai (馬偕). This family name is actually rarely seen even among Presbyterian Christians. Taiwanese Christians of other sects do not carry this tradition.

In Taiwan the family name 潘 may also have a local derivation from 番, or "barbarian". It is said to be common among descendents of Plains Aborigines. However, 潘 is also a well-established family name in China. This indicator works only occasionally.

(See: Top 10 Taiwanese family names and Top family names in China (1988))

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