Chinese surnames

刘

liú · Liu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 251
Ancestral seat (junwang)
彭城
Wikidata
Q804970

In other languages

  • German Liu
  • English Liu
  • Spanish Liu
  • French Liu
  • Japanese 劉
  • Korean 류
  • Russian Лю
  • Vietnamese Lưu
  • Traditional Chinese 劉

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).