Lo (羅)
A Taiwanese surname.
羅 Lo
- Zhuyin
- ㄌㄨㄛˊ
- Pinyin
- luó
- Wade-Giles
- Lo
- Further spellings of 羅
- Luo
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Lô
- Hakka (Sixian)
- lo¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 29th most common surname, roughly 0.83% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
A net used to catch birds; a light silk gauze; a fine sieve.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Luo (羅), first at Yicheng in present-day Hubei; once Chu conquered it, its people took the state's name. Hall name (堂號): 豫章堂.
Saying it 我姓羅 — wǒ xìng luó (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄌㄨㄛˊ), "my family name is 羅"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).