[[Tanka Fuzhou Tanka]] memiliki marga yang berbeda ketimbangdari Tanka dari Guangdong.<ref>Hansson, p. 117: Unless a change of surnames occurred for some unknown reason, or unless the ' water names' are not the real names of the Fujian boat people, it would seem that the Dan people lacked Chinese-style surnames at the time the Fujian branch</ref> Catatan Qing mengindikasikan bahwa "Weng, Ou, Chi, Pu, Jiang, dan Hai" adalahgadalah marga dariTanka [[Fuzhou Tanka]].<ref>Hansson, p. 116: In a late Qing dynasty work which has a section on boat people that mainly refers to those in Fujian, common surnames are said to be Weng 翁 ('nelayanold tuafisherman'), Ou 歐, Chi 池 (pond), Pu 浦 (tepi sungai), Jiang 江 (sungai) dan Hai 海 (laut). None of those surnames is a very common one in China and a few are very rare.</ref> Catatan Qing rjugajuga menyatakan bahwa marga-marga Tanka di Guangdong terdiri dari "Mai, Pu, Wu, Su, dan He", selain itu beberapa orang manklaimmengklaim bahwa Gu dan Zeng adalah marga asli Tanka.<ref>Hansson, p. 116: Some of them list the five names Mai 麥, Pu 濮, Wu 吴, Su 蘇 and He 何 The Huizhou prefectural gazetteer even states that there are no other boat people surnames, while others also add Gu 顧 and Zeng 曾 to make seven</ref>
