Chinese surnames

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suǒ · Suo

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 272
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武威
Wikidata
Q4425708

In other languages

  • English Suo
  • Russian Со

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Sonin1601 – 1667

    Chinese regent (1601-1667)

  • Suo Chao? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Suo Yuanli650 – 691

    secret police official

  • Suo Lin250 – 316

    general from the Jin Dynasty

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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).