Luò () is a Chinese surname, also known as Lo in Wade-Giles romanization It is pronounced Loc, Lock or Locke in Cantonese. According to a 2013 study it was the 163rd most common surname, shared by 960,000 people or 0.073% of the population, with the province with the most being

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

. In

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, the name 駱 is pronounced as かわらげ Kawarage. In Vietnamese 駱 is pronounced Lạc. It means ‘a white horse with a black mane’ in archaic Chinese.The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Origins

* From the personal name Luo, the style name of a prince in Qi. * from the name of Da Luo (大駱), a descendant of an official of the

Shang dynasty The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...

. His eldest son, Cheng, established the Da Luo (大駱) state in an unknown location in northwest China named after his father. After it was annexed by an ethnic group during the reign of

King Li of Zhou King Li of Zhou (died in 828 BC) (), personal name Ji Hu, was the tenth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. Estimated dates of his reign are 877–841 BC or 857–842 BC (''Cambridge History of Ancient China''). King Li was a corrupt and decadent k ...

, people from the state adopted Luo as their surname. * from the personal name Luo (駱), the given name of a royal member in

Zheng Zheng may refer to: *Zheng (surname), Chinese surname (鄭, 郑, ''Zhèng'') *Zheng County, former name of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, China *Guzheng (), a Chinese zither with bridges *Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC), emperor of the Qin Dynasty, ...

(located in part of present-day Shaanxi and Henan provinces) during the

Spring and Autumn period The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 770 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period. The period's name derives fr ...

* from the Tuo Luo Ba family (佗駱拔, also written as 他駱拔,他駱伏, 地駱拔) from the

Xianbei The Xianbei (; ) were a Proto-Mongolic ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China. They originated from the Donghu people who splintered into the ...

people in who changed their original surname during the

Northern Wei Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern and Southern dynasties#Northern dynasties, Northern dynasties ...

dynasty * family name of the Tuyuhun ethnic group, originating in the

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concu ...

period

Notable people

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Luo Binwang Luo Binwang (, ca. 619–684?), courtesy name Guanguang (觀光/观光), was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. His family was from Wuzhou, modern Yiwu, Zhejiang, but he was raised in Shandong. Luo is grouped with Lu Zhaolin, Wang Bo, and Yan ...

, Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty *

Gary Locke Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician and diplomat serving as the interim president of Bellevue College, the largest of the institutions that make up the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system. Locke serv ...

(born 1950, ancestry

Taishan, Guangdong Taishan (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (), is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China. It is administered as part o ...

), American politician, former United States Ambassador to China *

Luo Huining Luo Huining (; born 5 October 1954) is a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party who is Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong. A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang, he was previously the Governor, then Party S ...

(骆惠宁; born 1954) a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party *

Felix Lok Felix Lok Ying-kwan is a Hong Kong actor. His television appearances include roles in ''Looking Back in Anger'', ''The Drive of Life'' and '' The Academy''. Filmography Television series Films *''Heroes of the Underground'' (1976) *''The Happ ...

, Hong Kong actor *

Wayne Lo Wayne Lo Wen (; born November 14, 1974) is an American citizen born in Taiwan who perpetrated the shooting at Bard College at Simon's Rock on December 14, 1992, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He murdered one student and a professor, and wou ...

(born 1974), a Taiwanese-American murderer *

Loh Kean Yew Loh Kean Yew (; born 26 June 1997) is a Singaporean badminton player. He is the former men's singles world champion, winning the title at the 2021 BWF World Championships, becoming the first Singaporean to achieve this feat. Born in Penang, M ...

(骆建佑; born 1997) a Singaporean badminton player *

Liqun Luo Liqun Luo (; born January 1966) is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical ...

(骆利群; born 1966 in Shanghai) is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University *

Zhe-Xi Luo Zhe-Xi Luo (Chinese 骆泽喜; pinyin: Luò Zéxǐ) is an American paleontologist of Chinese origin, specializing in vertebrate paleontology, particularly mammal evolution, morphology, and systematics. Background Born in China in 1958, he ca ...

(骆泽喜) a Chinese-born American paleontologist *

Luo Xiaojuan Luo Xiaojuan (骆晓娟, Luò Xiǎojuān, born 12 June 1984) is a Chinese épée fencer. Luo won the gold medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating France in the final. She accomplished this with her t ...

(骆晓娟, Luò Xiǎojuān, born 12 June 1984) is a Chinese épée fencer *

Luo Ying Luo Ying (; born 1991) is a Chinese badminton player. She specializes in doubles and partnered with her twin sister, Luo Yu. The twins competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics but did not advance to the knock-out stage after placing third in the ...

(骆赢; born 1991) is a Chinese badminton player *

(骆晓娟, born 1984) is a Chinese épée fencer * Luo Jiacheng (骆嘉诚; born 1995) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Kunshan

References

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