Chinese surnames

赖

lài · Lai

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 275
Ancestral seat (junwang)
颍川
Wikidata
Q2273846

In other languages

  • German Lai
  • English Lai
  • Spanish Lai
  • French Lai
  • Japanese 頼
  • Korean 라이
  • Russian Лай
  • Vietnamese Lại
  • Traditional Chinese 賴

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lai He1894 – 1943

    Taiwanese poet, novelist, social activist (1894–1943)

  • Lai Xiaomin1962 – 2021

    Chinese politician and economist (1962-2021)

  • Lai Wenguang1827 – 1868

    military leader

  • Lai Lam-kwong1929 – 2016

    basketball player

  • Fang Huai1917 – 2019

    Chinese general (1917-2019)

  • Lai Bixia1932 – 2015

    Taiwanese Hakka singer (1932-2015)

  • Lai Man Wa1959 – 2015

    Macanese Customs officer

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).