Mi / Mi
The source explicitly identifies “弥 (彌)” as a currently rare surname, stating that it occurs among Han and Qiang people; it also says that the surname is recorded in the Clan Compendia of the Zheng Tongzhi and Xu Tongzhi.
The source lists several origin traditions: adoption of the surname from the ancient state of Mi, descent from the Spring and Autumn-period Lu grandee Ji Zi, the Ji-surname lineage of Zi Xia descended from Wei’s Gongsun Mi Mou taking the ancestral-name character as a surname, and a Northern Wei Xianbei Mi surname together with a change from the compound surname Mijie.
The source quotes Zheng Qiao’s annotation on a related passage in the Shiji, stating that Zi Xia, grandson of Wei’s Gongsun Mi Mou, took the ancestral-name character as his surname. It also quotes the Xing Shi Kao Lue, based on the Wei Shu, as saying that the Later Wei had a Xianbei Mi surname, namely Mijia.
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