Taiwan MOI compound surname supplement #4

朱陈

朱陈 is read as Zhūchén. It appears in Taiwan Ministry of the Interior 112 National Name Statistics as a local registered compound surname.

Pinyin

Zhūchén

Script forms

Simplified 朱陈 · Traditional 朱陳

Meaning

registered compound surname in Taiwan household records

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Observed in Taiwan MOI 112 household-registration statistics, 2023-06-30

Place: Taiwan municipalities and counties; table 11 reports local top-five compound surnames

Origin

朱陈 appears in Taiwan Ministry of the Interior 112 National Name Statistics table 11 as one of the local top-five compound surnames in at least one municipality or county. Treat it as a modern registered compound-surname signal, not automatically as a classical Bai Jia Xing compound surname.

Name meaning

Read 朱陈 as one two-character surname when it appears in Taiwan-style household-registration contexts. For English-speaking users, label it as a Taiwan registered compound surname rather than a general mainland default surname.