Wan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 万 in simplified Chinese and 萬 in traditional Chinese.
It is listed 162nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.
[1] As of 2008, it is the 88th most common surname in China, shared by 2.4 million people.
[2] The province with the most people having the surname is Anhui.
[3] In 2011, of the top 30 cities in China it was the only the[clarification needed] top ten surnames of Nanchang, where it is the fourth-most common name.