More Wangs than a Chinese phonebook

This is what happens when you have 1.3 billion people in a country where the government restricts what last name you can give your child:

With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, 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, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Public Security in April and published in the China Daily newspaper on Tuesday.

The most common name is Wang Tao, of whom there are over 100,000. More detail on the plan here.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that Korea is even worse in the appelation diversity department.