Luò (surname)

Luo
Other names
Variant form(s)Luo (Mandarin)
Loc, Lock, Lok or Locke (Cantonese)

Luò (simplified Chinese: 骆; traditional Chinese: 駱) 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.

In Japan, 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.

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