In Song Dynasty, the surname Li was less than 1 10,000, mainly distributed in Hebei. In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 26,000 people named Li, mainly distributed in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong, accounting for about 87% of the total population of Li in China. Secondly, it is distributed in Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan and other places. The province with the largest number of Li surname is Shanxi, accounting for about 48% of the total population of Li surname.

Distribution and atlas of contemporary chestnut surnames

The population of contemporary Li surname is about 300,000, accounting for 0.024% of the national population, and it is the 249th most popular surname. From the Song Dynasty to the present 1000 years, the population growth rate of Li has been on the rise. At present, the distribution in the whole country is mainly concentrated in Henan, which is the largest province of contemporary Li surname, accounting for half of the total population of Li surname; Secondly, it is distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui, Shaanxi and other places. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Li's surname in the population shows that in Henan, Hubei, Shanxi, most of Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Beijing and Tianjin, most of Hebei, central Inner Mongolia, most of Ningxia, Shaanxi and Chongqing, eastern Sichuan, Gansu, northern Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangxi, the proportion of Li's surname in the local population is generally above 0.06%, and the central region is above 0.3%, with an area of about/kloc of the total land area. In most areas of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou, southwest of Chongqing, south of Gansu, west of Ningxia, east of Qinghai, southwest corner of Shaanxi, northwest of Zhejiang, south of Anhui, middle of Jiangsu, east of Shandong, northeast of Hebei, most of Liaoning, and east of Heiji and Inner Mongolia, the proportion of Li in the local population is generally 0.03%-0.06.