Gao

• (surname): Gau
• Kao (Wade–Giles)

Chinese surname, from 高 (gāo).

Gao (countable and uncountable, plural Gaos)

1. A surname.
   • [1979, Hilary J. Beattie, “Land and taxation”, in Land and Lineage in China: A Study of Tʻung-chʻeng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Chʻing Dynasties‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:

     At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.]

2. A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gao is the 2948^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12172 individuals. Gao is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (97.39%) individuals.

• AGO, AOG, G. O. A., G.O.A., GOA, Goa, ago, goa, oga

Borrowed from Mandarin 高 (Gāo). Doublet of Ko.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɡaw/ [ˈɡaʊ̯]
  • IPA^(key): /ˈkaw/ [ˈkaʊ̯] (Mandarin Pinyin-literate)
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: #

Gao (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜏ᜔)

1. a Chinese surname from Mandarin

• Caw
• Co
• Ko