According to a report from the Ministry of Public Security. Yichen (奕辰) and Yinuo (一诺) are the most popular names for newborns in 2020. More than 14,000 boys were named Yichen while over 24,000 girls were given the name Yinuo.
More and more parents are giving their babies longer names to make their names stand out. There are around 3 percent of people with four or more characters in their names.
To help avoid too common names, new parents are able to check how many people are using a certain name on the website of the Ministry of Public Security.
As to the ranking of surnames (姓), the largest group of newborns shared the surname Li, with 726,000 new babies have this surname. Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu and Chen are the top five common surnames in China in 2020, the same as in 2019. 30.8 percent of the total population in China has these five surnames.
Although the common practice is to adopt (采用) the surnames of their fathers, more children have taken their mothers’ surnames because of the country’s second child policy. In 2020, about 7.7 percent of the 10 million newborn babies used their mothers’ surnames.
【小题1】More than 14,000 new born boys are named ________ in 2020.| A．Yichen | B．Yinuo | C．Yiwei | D．Yihan |
| A．wish a good luck | B．to honor their mothers |
| C．make more friends | D．avoid too common names |
| A．Zhang | B．Li | C．Wang | D．Liu |
| A．they are the second child in their families |
| B．their mothers’ surnames are more popular |
| C．their parents follow an old tradition in China |
| D．their parents want to make their names special |
