| Chao Surname History Chao Rankingthe United States, the name Chao is the 5,755th most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. 1
| Chao migration to the United States | + |
Chao Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Manuel Chao, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1860 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Chao (post 1700) | + |
- Angela Chao (1973-2024), American businesswoman
- James Chao, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1996 3
- Elaine Lan Chao (1953-2001), American politician, Secretary of Labor, 2001- 4
- Cedric C. Chao, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988 4
- Ramón Luís Chao Rego (1935-2018), Spanish journalist, writer and pianist who won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955
- Chao Ban, (32-102 CE), courtesy name Zhongsheng, was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and military general of the Eastern Han dynasty
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 3) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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