Qiao

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nonstandard spelling of qiāo

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˌkiˈaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Qiao is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

nonstandard spelling of qiāo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Qiao counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Qiao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—1.9K—
ES Spain—107—
FI Finland—68—
GB United Kingdom—59—
SE Sweden—39—

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 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Qiao is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Qìáo

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, China, United States, Canada

    Also written Qiáo, Qiāo

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Qiao is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Hábil

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In och, bleached white (of bones)

    as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Qiao Zhou, b. 199Qiao Shi, b. 1086Qiao Guanhua, b. 1913Qiao Zonghuai, b. 1944Qiao Hong, b. 1968Qiao Yunping, b. 1968Qiao Zhenyu, b. 1978Qiao Qiao, b. 1980Qiao Renliang, b. 1987Qiao Xin, b. 1993

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formal尊敬的Qiao女士：Dear Ms Qiao, (English)
Informal你好，Qiao！Hi Qiao, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Qiao
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#15,142
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010841#28,380
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000356#54,269
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—107#26,360
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—107#26,168
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—68#17,479
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200259#45,944
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—39#15,379
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Qiao mean, and where does it come from?
nonstandard spelling of qiāo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Qiao?
A machine transcription gives /ˌkiˈaʊ/ (IPA) for Chinese.
In which country does Qiao have the most bearers?
Qiao is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Qiao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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