Chinese surnames

裘

qiú · Qiu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 171
Ancestral seat (junwang)
渤海
Wikidata
Q15937156

In other languages

  • German Qiu
  • English Qiu
  • Spanish Qiu
  • French Qiu
  • Korean 추

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Qiu Xigui1935 – 2025

    Chinese historian and paleographer (1935-2025)

  • Qiu Yufang1871 – 1904

    Qing dynasty journalist (1871-1904)

  • Qiu Fazu1914 – 2008

    Chinese politician (1914-2008)

  • Qiu Lian1644 – 1729

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 90741

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).