Korean surname · 2015 census
조 Cho
This page reports historical census evidence for the surname. Romanization is a navigation aid and may differ from an individual family’s preferred Latin spelling.
Date and evidence boundary
The population figure is from the 2015 Population and Housing Census. This page does not estimate the surname’s present-day population, and it does not infer a person’s ancestry from a surname alone.
Bon-gwan
Browse bon-gwan →Cho clan groups in the census corpus
Bon-gwan counts are historical census rows tied to this surname/Hanja combination. Only groups meeting the current public threshold are linked here.
한양 Cho clan332,580 people · 31.51% of this surname count함안 Cho clan282,890 people · 26.8% of this surname count풍양 Cho clan124,262 people · 11.77% of this surname count백천 Cho clan75,978 people · 7.2% of this surname count옥천 Cho clan53,406 people · 5.06% of this surname count평양 Cho clan50,480 people · 4.78% of this surname count순창 Cho clan34,069 people · 3.23% of this surname count양주 Cho clan29,631 people · 2.81% of this surname count김제 Cho clan19,249 people · 1.82% of this surname count임천 Cho clan14,258 people · 1.35% of this surname count횡성 Cho clan6,685 people · 0.63% of this surname count직산 Cho clan4,360 people · 0.41% of this surname count평산 Cho clan3,348 people · 0.32% of this surname count함양 Cho clan2,189 people · 0.21% of this surname count남원 Cho clan1,266 people · 0.12% of this surname count밀양 Cho clan1,124 people · 0.11% of this surname count성안 Cho clan969 people · 0.09% of this surname count경주 Cho clan912 people · 0.09% of this surname count진주 Cho clan796 people · 0.08% of this surname count진보 Cho clan637 people · 0.06% of this surname count