The population of contemporary dragon surname is about 2.8 million, which is the 85th surname in China, accounting for 0.28% of the national population.
At first, the dragon surname was mostly found in northern Henan and Shandong, and it was the most common surname in southwest Bashu and other places in Han Dynasty. "In Gongsun Shu, the most common surnames are Long, Fu, Yin, Dong and Gong Cao Xie Si 'an, and their territory is preserved as Han" (Biography of the Later Han Dynasty in Southwest China). At the end of Western Jin Dynasty, Guan Yi, Du Nan, Jiangxi and other southern provinces gradually became popular. Before the Ming Dynasty, it was a little surname (after 200). Since the Ming dynasty, due to political stability and being far away from war, it has been able to multiply, and the distribution pattern has been formed in the Ming dynasty. It is still basically distributed in the south and rarely seen in the north.