Luò () is a Chinese surname, also known as Lo in Wade-Giles romanization It is pronounced Loc, Lock, Lok 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 ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

. In

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

, 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 that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou d ...

. 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) (), also known as King Fen of Zhou (周汾王), personal name Ji Hu, was a king of the Zhou dynasty of China. Estimated dates of his reign are 877–841 BC or 857–842 BC (''Cambridge History of Ancient China''). ...

, people from the state adopted Luo as their surname. * from the personal name Luo (駱), the given name of a royal member in Zheng (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 History of China, Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou (256 BCE), characterized by the gradual erosion of royal power as local lords nominally subject t ...

* 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 an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China. The Xianbei were likely not of a single ethnicity, but rather a multiling ...

people in who changed their original surname during the

Northern Wei Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei ( zh, c=北魏, p=Běi Wèi), Tuoba Wei ( zh, c=拓跋魏, p=Tuòbá Wèi), Yuan Wei ( zh, c=元魏, p=Yuán Wèi) and Later Wei ( zh, t=後魏, p=Hòu Wèi), was an Dynasties of China, impe ...

dynasty * family name of the Tuyuhun ethnic group, originating in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

Notable people

駱

Luo Binwang Luo Binwang (, ca. 619–684?), courtesy name Guanguang (觀光/观光), was a List of Chinese language poets, Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. His family was from Wuzhou, modern Yiwu, Zhejiang, but he was raised in Shandong. Luo is grouped wit ...

, Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty *

Gary Locke Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician, attorney, and former diplomat from the State of Washington. Locke served as the 21st governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005, where he was the first Chinese-American governor ...

(born 1950, ancestry

Taishan, Guangdong Taishan (), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, 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 Guangd ...

), 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 was the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong between 2020 and 2023. A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang, he was previous ...

(骆惠宁; born 1954), 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 Ha ...

, Hong Kong actor *

Wayne Lo On December 14, 1992, a mass shooting occurred at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. A student and a professor were killed, and four others were injured, before the gunman, 18-year-old Wayne Lo, surren ...

(born 1974), a Taiwanese-American murderer *

Loh Kean Yew Loh Kean Yew LKY (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 – Men's singles, 2021 BWF World Championships, becoming the first Si ...

(骆建佑; born 1997), 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 I ...

(骆利群; born 1966), 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 Luo gained his Bachelor's in ...

(骆泽喜), 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 ...

(骆晓娟, Luò Xiǎojuān, born 1984), Chinese épée fencer *

Luo Ying Luo Ying (; born 11 January 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 ...

(骆赢; born 1991), Chinese badminton player *

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

References

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