Cho (Korean surname)
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]
| Cho | |
| Hangul | 조 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Jo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho |
Cho or Jo is a Korean family name.
List of people with the surname
People from the past
- Jo Gwangjo (1482-1520), scholar-official of the Joseon period
- Jo Man-yeong (1776-1846), father of Queen Shinjeong
- Cho Man-sik (1883-1950), activist of the Korea's independence movement
People from nowadays
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Notes
- 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.
- "행정구역(시도)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" (in Korean). KOSIS. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
See also
- Chō (surname), a Japanese surname related to the Chinese Zhang
- Cho (disambiguation)
- List of Korean family names
- List of common Korean surnames
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