Zhao

Zhao is the 877th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,974 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,669.

By the numbers

People: 38,974
Rank: 877th
How common: 1 in 7,669
Per 100,000: 13.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn pronunciation of Chinese 趙, an ancient city name.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Zhao

Zhao Ziyang (1919–2005)former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Chloé Zhao (born 1982)Chinese filmmaker
Zhao Wei (born 1976)Chinese actress, singer and filmmaker
Ban Zhao (45–116)late 1st/early 2nd century Chinese historian, philosopher and scholar
Zhao Leji (born 1957)Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Zhao Yun (died 229)Chinese military general
Zhao Yunlei (born 1986)Chinese badminton player
Zhao Xintong (born 1997)Chinese snooker player

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

Surnames like Zhao

Zhang

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.