Wang is the most common last name in the world

 

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Wang is literally the most popular Chinese name AFAIK Finding unrelated Wangs must be extremely common in China...

 

The second most popular one.

 

Xiyu and Xinyu,王欣瑜，王曦雨,the Chinese characters are totally different.
Wang is a top 5 surname(also Li) in China, probably there are more than 100million Wangs

 

Right, just as Krystina and Karolina are different names, while Krystina and Karolina Pliskova are twins.

Seriously, nobody else thought the same??? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills....

 

YES...Of course...
Welcome to Tennis 101...

 

I noticed on the WTA Live Rankings website that Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu are half a year apart in age, which seemed odd, since I assumed they were twins, or, at the very least, Irish twins (i.e. less than 12 months apart in age).

Turns out, they aren't related at all.

IS THIS WIDELY KNOWN?????

I mean… yes

 

But they are soul mates aren't they? Or are they Yin and Yang?

Nor far off the rankings from each other either.

 

Xiyu is from eastern part of China,Xinyu is from southern part, around 1500km away, distance like from Finland to Germany.

 

All the Smiths in the US aren’t related??!!

 

If Mandy and Kandy Smith, representing the USA, competed in junior slams at the exact same time, and played doubles together, you wouldn't think "oh, they're probably related"?

 

Top ten surnames in China：
1、Li,李，Population:around 95million;(Li Na)
2、Wang,王，around 90million;(Wang Xiyu and Wang Xinyu)
3、Zhang,张，around 84million;(Zhang Shuai)
4、Liu,刘，around 65million;
5、Chen,陈,around 54million;
6、Yang,杨,around 34million;
7、Zhao,赵，around 28million;
8、Huang,黄，around26million;
9、Zhou,周，around 25million;
10、Wu,吴，around 24million;（Wu Yibing~ATP Chinese #1）.

 

There are more Lis, Wangs, and Zhangs in China than the entire population of the UK (or Germany or France or any other EU country).

There are more, Lis, Wangs, Zhangs and Lius in China than the combined population of Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain. Zowie.

This really gives one a good indication of how vast the Chinese population is. One thinks there are a lot of Smiths and Joneses in the UK but it is a drop in the ocean compared to the number of Lis and Wangs in China.

 

Hope they can both move into top 20

 

In that case, one of them has to chose a stage name which is distinctive enough.

Same principle as in showbusiness. Like if you're an actor and you start to get roles in Hollywood movies, and your name is Tom Cruz ...

 

It's the most common surname in mainland China, along with Li. There are over 100 million Wang's worldwide.

 

I mean this is like assuming two random people with the surname of 'Smith' are related just because. Wang Qiang isn't related to Xiyu or Xinyu either! (BREAKING)

 

Yes bc most siblings I know her derivative names. My buddies Madison, Adison, and Dison, or the brothers John, Ohn, and Hn.

 

Lois and Eloise Newberry, who I think must be sisters, use this sort of scheme in reverse. (There's no evidence of a third sister, Eeloisee.)

 

Xinyu is prettier.

 

I'm genuinely stunned it is common knowledge they aren't related. I was confident until hours ago that they were sisters, and I thought they were twins.

I would also presume a pair of Americans with similar sounding first names and identical surnames who come up at the exact same time in juniors and play doubles together would be sisters until I learn otherwise.

 

I'm genuinely stunned it is common knowledge they aren't related. I was confident until hours ago that they were sisters, and I thought they were twins.

And Jie Zheng is Quinwen Zheng’s mother? Na Li is Ann Li’s aunt?

 

i honestly thought the OP was being facetious when i read the thread title. i guess not …

 

Li Na is also not Ann Li’s aunt. Just an FYI.

 

Same surname, different nations, and different generations is QUITE different from near-identical given names, identical surnames, the same junior tennis "class", and frequent doubles partners.

I'm seriously surprised this is common knowledge.

I'm adding a poll to this thread.

 

Idiot and ignorant.

Wang is like Smith of Western world.

 

If a pair named Kandy and Mandy Smith both represented America and were both playing junior tennis at the exact same time, including playing doubles together, you honestly wouldn't think they were related?

 

lmfao not OP doubling down! i like u but this is not the hill you want to die on

 

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by this information.

 

According to posts above, the OP is a drama queen?

 

The OP is the single greatest poster in the history of this forum, just stunned by this new information.

Seriously, to me this is like learning (in 2014, before I knew which one was right handed and which one was left handed) that the Pliskovas aren't, in fact, twins.

 

My prediction is that any Daily Mail readers will always think they are sisters. No matter what the facts are.

 

The question at this point is will they ever be well enough known for the Daily Mail to notice them.

More winning required! Doing it at Wimbledon obviously also helps.

 

Maybe OP thinks Serena WIlliams and Hank Williams are related.

Or Madison Keys and Florida Keys.

 

And Jie Zheng is Quinwen Zheng’s mother? Na Li is Ann Li’s aunt?

These comparisons are laughably irrelevant. The names are as close as (or closer than) Karolina and Krystina Pliskova, and the pair played doubles together as juniors.

@Scrubaball - no, but I did think Venus and Serena Williams, playing doubles together in 1998, were probably sisters. Was that a wild assumption I made?

 

Bernie Sanders, Pharoah Sanders and Ed Sanders (of The Fugs) were all both within just over 2 years of each other between 1939 and 1941. All three were born in the USA and are great, very wise men who I have massive respect and admiration for. All three have similar progressive, left wing values. Yet they are not in any way related.

 

@WilliamsOhanian I thought they were twins as well for the same reasons. Oops.

 

OMG, the stupidity. I can’t.

 

Be nicer to these newbies.

 

Since most of my vietnamese friends have surname Nguyen I assume they are all related back there

/joke/

 

if a female Nguyen was born in Czech Republic, the surname will be Nguyenova, right?