Cho (Korean surname)

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Not to be confused with the surname 조, 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. Cho (조) is a royal family name in Korea. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, about 1% of the total population.[1] The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 or 曺[2]

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 present times[]

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[]

  • Chō (surname),
  • List of Korean family names
  • List of common Korean surnames
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