Liao
At the 2020 census, 11,224 Americans bore the surname Liao — 3,131st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,224
- Rank
- 3,131st
- How common
- 1 in 26,600
- Per 100,000
- 3.8
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Liao described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Liao
- Emperor Taizu of Liao (872–926)Emperor of the Khitans and founder of the Liao dynasty
- Zhang Liao (169–222)Chinese general serving warlord Cao Cao
- Emperor Jingzong of Liao (948–982)5th emperor of Liao Dynasty (r. 969－982)
- Emperor Muzong of Liao (931–969)emperor of the Liao Dynasty
- Emperor Taizong of Liao (902–947)emperor of the Liao dynasty of China from 927 to 947
- Emperor Shengzong of Liao (972–1031)sixth emperor of the Liao Dynasty (r. 982-1031)
- Emperor Shizong of Liao (919–951)third emperor of the Liao Dynasty
- Liao Hui (born 1987)weightlifter
People named Liao with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Liao
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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.