Cho (Korean surname)

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Not to be confused with the surname 초, which is also transliterated as 'Cho' or 'Ch'o'.
Cho
Hangul
조
Hanja
趙 or 曺
Revised RomanizationJo
McCune–ReischauerCho

Cho or Jo is a Korean family name.

As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, more than 2% of the total population.[1] The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 (Chinese: Zhao) or 曺 (Chinese: Cao); the former is nearly three times more common.[2]

List of people with the surname

Notes

  1. ^ National Statistical Office (2000). "성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구". 인구 총조사 메타DB [Meta-database of the general population census]. Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2006-01-05.
  2. ^ "행정구역(시도)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" (in Korean). KOSIS. Retrieved 2019-08-27.

See also

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