Over 400,000 people in China are named after PRC National Day

Some statistics on National Day and Chinese personal names.

In China, 1,894 people have the surname Guo (written with the character for "state") and given name Qing (together the two characters mean "national holiday", i.e. PRC National Day); 406,860 people have the given name Guoqing, nine have the surname Shiyi (October 1, the PRC’s birthday), and 6,466 have the given name Shiyi.

Additionally, over 960,000 people in China have the given name Jianguo (two characters meaning "building the state"), and 321 have the surname Jianguo. From 1900 to 1909, only 17 people in China bore the given name Jianguo, while in 1949 alone, when the PRC was founded, 8,240 people were named Jianguo. Over 290,000 received the name in 1960–1969. Since 2000, it has been given to 9,097 PRC citizens.