Zhào
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 兆
Zhào is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 260(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.5K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zhao in US United States, CN China, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 兆
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhào counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | #342 | ≈5,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 260 | — | Zhao | 215 |
| US United States | — | 22,301 | 1 in 15K | 39K | Zhao | 399 |
| AU Australia | #247 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Zhao | 182 |
| CA Canada | #488 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Zhao | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | #813 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Zhao | 49 |
| HK Hong Kong | #120 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Zhao | 79 |
| SG Singapore | #143 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Zhao | 96 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Qin Shi Huangb. 259CNnot in their usual namefirst emperor of Qin Dynasty
- Emperor Taizu of Songb. 927CNnot in their usual namefounding emperor of the Song Dynasty (reigned 960-976)
- Emperor Duanzong of Songb. 1268CNnot in their usual nameemperor of the Song Dynasty
- Zhao Ziyangb. 1919CNformer General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
- Elaine Chaob. 1953TWnot in their usual name18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
- Judy Chub. 1953USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from California
- Rosalind Chaob. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Winston Chaob. 1960TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor (born 1960)
- Zhao Weib. 1976CNChinese actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1976)
- Chloé Zhaob. 1982CNChinese filmmaker (born 1982)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhào mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 兆 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zhào have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 million people named Zhào in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhao.
- How common is the name Zhào?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,301 people named Zhào in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhào compared with other names?
- In China, Zhào is the 342nd most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zh%C3%A0oThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zhào” — the 342nd most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.