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Chao Ranking

the 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


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. 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)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 3) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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