Likewise, although Chinese make up the largest part of America's Asian and Pacific Islander population,[1] none of the romanizations of 申 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the AD 2000 US census.
As is common with Chinese surnames, the modern Shen family arose from various unrelated sources.
This Shen was originally ruled by the Ying dynasty, who claimed descent from a son of the Ku Emperor named Shishen.
A third state of Shen (also 申) was ruled by a cadet branch of the Zhou royal family, whose ancestral name was Jiang (姜), and arose from territory granted to King Xuan's maternal uncle[who?]
This land's rulers and people also ended in adopting the region as their clan name following its destruction.