Chinese surnames

鲍

bào · Bao

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 62
Ancestral seat (junwang)
上党
Wikidata
Q4077520

In other languages

  • German Bao
  • English Bao
  • Spanish Bao
  • French Bao
  • Japanese 鮑
  • Korean 바오
  • Russian Бао
  • Vietnamese Bào
  • Traditional Chinese 鮑

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Bao Tong1932 – 2022

    Policy secretary of former CCP general secretary & Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang (1932–2022)

  • Bao Zhao414 – 466

    Chinese poet and official

  • Bao Xin152 – 192

    Han dynasty general and warlord (152–192)

  • Bao Shuya800 BCE – 644 BCE

    Chinese politician

  • Bao Xun150 – 226

    Cao Wei politician and general (died 226)

  • Bao Zhong200 – 189

    fictional human in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms"

  • Bao Chao1828 – 1886

    Qing Dynasty politician and general

  • Bao Wenyue1892 – 1980

    Chinese warlord

  • Bao Guancheng1898 – 1975

    Chinese diplomat

  • Bao Xu? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Bao Xuan1 BCE – 3

    Western Han dynasty person CBDB = 134963

  • Bow Fong1922 – 2006

    Hong Kong male actor and director (1922-2006)

  • Pau King-yin? – 1975

    Hong Kong born footballer who represented Republic of China (Taiwan)

  • Bao Guiqing1867 – 1934

    Republic of China person CBDB = 90860

  • Yih-Hsing Pao1930 – 2013

    mechanical engineer

  • Bao Fang722 – 790

    Tang dynasty person CBDB = 94858

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).