This story I could not pass up. With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames in China, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday.

Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang. In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames.

93 million people with the surname Wang, wow!

So if you threw a quarter into a crowd in China how many Wangs do you think you would hit?

Under a new draft regulation released by the ministry of public security, parents will be able to combine their surnames for their children, a move that could open up 1.28 million new possibilities, the China Daily reported.

I was thinking what the U.S. would be like if there were 93 million people with my last name, Silverstein. (Shivers) I might have trouble sleeping tonight after that thought.

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