I think it would be great to mention somewhere in a Hanzi’s page/lesson that it is a common surname. Just knowing that something is likely a surname vastly improves reading comprehension, especially when the non-name meaning of the hanzi is less frequent, as is often the case. It can of course be subjective of what counts as a common name, but the list below I think would be a reasonable starting point!
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I second this! I often come across some names in shows or text that I realize only later are a surname (but I still don’t know how to read it).
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