The surname Tsao
A Chinese surname, carried by 2,508 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T200
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 曹 (cáo).
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,508 people named Tsao in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,104 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,259.
Who is named Tsao
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Tsao identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.5% as two or more races and 2.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 93%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tsao has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tsao come from?
- Borrowed from Mandarin 曹 (cáo).
- How common is the surname Tsao?
- 2,508 people in the United States had the surname Tsao in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,104 Americans. It ranked 12,397th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tsao?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Tsao identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.5% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Tsao getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,259 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,508 in 2010, up 11%.