Shao Surname
Approximately 2,832,369 people bear this surname
Shao Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | 2,784,308 | 1:491 | 82 |
| Taiwan | 14,657 | 1:1,600 | 87 |
| Tanzania | 11,277 | 1:4,695 | 636 |
| Thailand | 5,285 | 1:13,366 | 891 |
| United States | 4,968 | 1:72,959 | 8,424 |
| Singapore | 2,910 | 1:1,893 | 198 |
| Hong Kong | 2,474 | 1:2,965 | 185 |
| Canada | 1,185 | 1:31,093 | 4,052 |
| Lesotho | 954 | 1:2,131 | 260 |
| Australia | 789 | 1:34,215 | 4,509 |
| India | 531 | 1:1,444,568 | 54,974 |
| Spain | 419 | 1:111,580 | 8,859 |
| Macau | 410 | 1:1,467 | 189 |
| England | 223 | 1:249,857 | 20,242 |
| Japan | 212 | 1:603,039 | 15,894 |
| South Africa | 202 | 1:268,206 | 26,747 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| France | 157 | 1:423,075 | 61,574 |
| Germany | 129 | 1:624,073 | 49,483 |
| New Zealand | 120 | 1:37,736 | 6,411 |
| Malaysia | 118 | 1:249,951 | 14,154 |
| Netherlands | 91 | 1:185,573 | 26,340 |
| United Arab Emirates | 75 | 1:122,164 | 10,258 |
| Brazil | 67 | 1:3,195,139 | 92,032 |
| Sweden | 66 | 1:149,193 | 10,483 |
| Italy | 52 | 1:1,176,090 | 74,216 |
| Iran | 48 | 1:1,599,636 | 62,090 |
| Ecuador | 40 | 1:397,646 | 9,955 |
| Russia | 38 | 1:3,792,712 | 188,390 |
| Philippines | 31 | 1:3,265,749 | 145,701 |
| Switzerland | 29 | 1:283,204 | 22,806 |
| Norway | 27 | 1:190,455 | 22,163 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Austria | 23 | 1:370,236 | 39,193 |
| Greece | 21 | 1:527,609 | 66,013 |
| Ireland | 16 | 1:294,309 | 10,207 |
| Belgium | 16 | 1:718,540 | 60,840 |
| Scotland | 15 | 1:356,921 | 15,763 |
| Ukraine | 12 | 1:3,793,558 | 197,857 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Guam | 12 | 1:13,343 | 2,098 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Lebanon | 9 | 1:626,343 | 14,059 |
| Finland | 8 | 1:687,088 | 36,047 |
| Kenya | 8 | 1:5,772,488 | 50,256 |
| South Korea | 7 | 1:7,320,037 | 1,243 |
| Chile | 7 | 1:2,516,639 | 33,195 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| Belarus | 6 | 1:1,583,510 | 89,472 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Vietnam | 5 | 1:18,529,211 | 3,282 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Argentina | 5 | 1:8,548,683 | 204,003 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Georgia | 3 | 1:1,248,515 | 28,066 |
| Maldives | 2 | 1:202,086 | 4,973 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Shao (10,028) may also be a first name.
Shao Demographics
Shao Political Affiliation
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Shao Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shao Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shao (Bengali: সাও, Georgian: შაო, Hindi: शाो, Oriya: ସାଓ, Russian: Шао) is carried by more people in China than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Shao? popularity and diffusion
The surname Shao is the 190th most commonly occurring surname on earth, held by around 1 in 2,573 people. Shao is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Shao reside; 99 percent reside in East Asia and 99 percent reside in Sino-East Asia. Shao is also the 61,117th most commonly occurring first name on earth, held by 10,028 people.
This surname is most numerous in China, where it is borne by 2,784,308 people, or 1 in 491. Aside from China it exists in 95 countries. It is also common in Taiwan, where 1 percent live and Tanzania, where 0 percent live.
Shao Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya and Syriac Catholic (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States Shao are 10.6% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 63.83% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Shao earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 85.79% less than the national average, earning €4,268 per year; in Norway they earn 33.99% less than the national average, earning 228,460 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 11.93% more than the national average, earning R 265,992 per year; in United States they earn 24.05% more than the national average, earning $53,527 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.94% more than the national average, earning $53,130 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shao Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shao in the Georgian language | ||
| შაო | shao | - |
| Shao in the Oriya language | ||
| ସାଓ | sa'o | - |
| Shao in the Hindi language | ||
| शाो | sao | 94.59 |
| शाओ | sa'o | 5.41 |
| Shao in the Bengali language | ||
| সাও | sa'o | 50 |
| শাও | sa'o | 50 |
| Shao in the Russian language | ||
| Шао | sao | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Shao
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