Zhan / Zhan
The surname Zhan is absent from the Hundred Family Surnames. It has approximately 980,000 people nationwide, about 0.08% of the population. As a surname, its Mandarin pronunciation is zhān, first tone; its Teochew pronunciation is ziam1, with a Jian pronunciation.
In the Spring and Autumn period, the son of Tian Wuyu of Qi, Tian (Chen) Shu, had the courtesy name Zizhan. The Shiben records that his descendants adopted their grandfather's courtesy name as their surname, linking 占 to the Gui surname.
Today, the surname is found in Wuqing of Tianjin, Jingxian of Hebei, Wuhai of Inner Mongolia, Pingdu of Shandong, Taiyuan of Shanxi, Jianli of Hubei, Jingxian of Anhui, and Xinhui of Guangdong, among other places. Among genetic-testing users, ancestral origins are concentrated mainly in Jiangxi, Hubei, and Fujian.
In the Song dynasty, Zhan Tong served as a Palace Attendant to the Heir Apparent; in the Ming dynasty, Zhan En served as county assistant magistrate of Zhuanglang.
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