Jiāo
surname · Latin script
Jiāo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.
- FIFinland1 in 133K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 249K
- SESweden1 in 292K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)
792 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jiao in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.
Sources 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jiāo 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.
792 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Jiao Hongb. 1540Ming dynasty scholar and historian (1540–1620)
- Jiao Bingzhenb. 1689CNChinese painter and astronomer (active 1689-1726)
- Jiao Ruoyub. 1915CNChinese politician
- Chiao Chiaob. 1943SGnot in their usual nameChinese actress raised in Taiwan and has Singapore/Hong Kong dual nationality
- Peggy Chiaob. 1953TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film producer (born 1953)
- Leroy Chiaob. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut and engineer
- Jiao Zhiminb. 1963CNtable tennis player
- Vincent Chiaob. 1967TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
- Jiao Junyanb. 1987CNChinese actress
- Jiao Liuyangb. 1991CNChinese swimmer
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 Jiāo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Jiāo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 792 people named Jiāo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jiao.
- Where is Jiāo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jiāo is densest in Finland — about 1 in 133 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jiāo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 792 people named Jiāo in 2010, about 1 in 420 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ji%C4%81oThe 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, “Jiāo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.