Cho

Cho is the 964th most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,679 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,377.

By the numbers

People: 35,679
Rank: 964th
How common: 1 in 8,377
Per 100,000: 11.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

From Korean ^조(趙) and ^조(曺), or yue.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cho described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Cho

Cho Jung-seok (born 1980)South Korean actor
John Cho (born 1972)American actor
Arden Cho (born 1985)American actress, singer, and model
Seung-Hui Cho (1984–2007)South Korean mass murderer; perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre
Cho Gue-sung (born 1998)South Korean footballer
Margaret Cho (born 1968)American comedian and actress
Cho Mi-yeon (born 1997)South Korean singer; member of i-dle
Cho Kyuhyun (born 1988)South Korean singer

People named Cho with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cho

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.