Growing up in the 1980s, Vincent Garcia and his family were the only Garcias he knew, he said. “I can remember when we moved from Queens to Plainview in 1967, my father saying we were one of the only ...

If you stop a random person on the street in China, there’s a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu or Chen. That’s because those are the five most common surnames in ...