Chinese surnames

敖

áo · Ao

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 373
Ancestral seat (junwang)
谯郡
Wikidata
Q4067893

In other languages

  • German Ao
  • English Ao
  • Spanish Ao
  • French Ao
  • Korean 아오
  • Russian Ао

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Temsüla Ao1945 – 2022

    Indian writer (1945–2022)

  • Ao Bing? – 1100 BCE

    Investiture of the Gods character

  • Ao Ying2 – 2

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 130301

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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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).