Rarest Chinese Dynasty — All 31 Answers Ranked by Rarity

31 answers are accepted for “Name a Chinese dynasty”. Eastern Jin is the rarest Chinese dynasty in this ranking, with 2,903 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Western Han is the second-rarest with 9,354 monthly Wikipedia views, 3.22× the figure for Eastern Jin. Tang dynasty is the most common Chinese dynasty in this ranking, with 723,388 monthly Wikipedia views, 249.2× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 31 answers: 4,793,666. Eastern Jin is under 0.1% of that total. 7 answers are Epic or Legendary: Eastern Jin (Legendary), Western Han (Legendary), Western Liang (Legendary), and 4 more.

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Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

31 answers to “Name a Chinese dynasty”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank	Answer	Tier	Rarity	Monthly Wikipedia views
1	Eastern Jin on Wikipedia	Legendary	1.000	2,903
2	Western Han on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.967	9,354
3	Western Liang on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.933	14,635
4	Western Wei on Wikipedia	Epic	0.900	23,578
5	House of Zhu on Wikipedia	Epic	0.867	29,119
6	Later Han on Wikipedia	Epic	0.833	37,685
7	Eastern Zhou on Wikipedia	Epic	0.800	38,471
8	Later Jin on Wikipedia	Rare	0.767	39,784
9	Later Zhou on Wikipedia	Rare	0.733	46,343
10	Later Liang on Wikipedia	Rare	0.700	47,254
11	Wu Zhou on Wikipedia	Rare	0.667	47,757
12	Later Tang on Wikipedia	Rare	0.633	51,928
13	Xin dynasty on Wikipedia	Rare	0.600	52,687
14	Western Zhou on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.567	54,056
15	Southern Qi on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.533	57,180
16	Chen dynasty on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.500	57,368
17	Shun dynasty on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.467	65,790
18	Liang dynasty on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.433	70,222
19	Southern Ming on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.400	72,327
20	Liu Song dynasty on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.367	83,553
21	Northern Yuan on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.333	113,872
22	Liao dynasty on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.300	192,186
23	Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.267	195,824
24	Jin dynasty (266–420) on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.233	223,411
25	Jin dynasty (1115–1234) on Wikipedia	Common	0.200	253,498
26	Xia dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.167	300,555
27	Shang dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.133	340,771
28	Zhou dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.100	370,226
29	Song dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.067	561,029
30	Han dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.033	616,912
31	Tang dynasty on Wikipedia	Common	0.000	723,388

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What is the rarest Chinese dynasty?

Eastern Jin is the rarest Chinese dynasty in this ranking, with 2,903 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many Chinese dynasties are there?

There are 31 Chinese dynasties in this ranking, from Eastern Jin (rarest) to Tang dynasty (most common).

What is the most common Chinese dynasty?

Tang dynasty is the most common Chinese dynasty in this ranking, with 723,388 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.