Shao

At the 2020 census, 5,929 Americans bore the surname Shao — 5,641st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 50,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,929
Rank: 5,641st
How common: 1 in 50,400
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-wadegiles and cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn pronunciation of various Chinese surnames.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Shao

Yuan Shao (154–202)Han Dynasty warlord
Shao Jiayi (born 1980)Chinese footballer
Shao Yong (1011–1077)Chinese philosopher, mathematician, and scholar under the Song dynasty
Shao Qi (born 2001)Chinese freestyle skier
Ivy Shao (born 1989)Taiwanese actress
Liu Shao (426–453)Chinese emperor of the Liu Song dynasty

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

Surnames like Shao

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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.