Gao

21,908 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gao in the 2020 census, making it the 1,596th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,600.

By the numbers

People: 21,908
Rank: 1,596th
How common: 1 in 13,600
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

From cmn ^高.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.4%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Gao

Gao Xingjian (born 1940)Chinese novelist and playwright
Godfrey Gao (1984–2019)Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model
Gao Zhisheng (born 1964)Chinese human rights lawyer
Gao Ling (born 1979)Chinese badminton player
Gao Yuanyuan (born 1979)Chinese actress
Gao Lin (born 1986)Chinese footballer
Gao Tingyu (born 1997)Chinese male speed skater
Zhao Gao (300 BC–206 BC)Qin dynasty politician

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

Surnames like Gao

Gaona

Try it on yourself

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.