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tao Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : according to tradition, from Tao Tangshi, the name of the emperor Yao (2357–2257 bc), first of the three model emperors, before he came to power. A branch of his descendants retained the surname Tao. Another source of this surname is the word for ‘pottery’; this is traced back to a descendant of the second of the three model emperors, Shun (2257–2205 bc). During the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc), this descendant was in charge of the manufacture of pottery. As the character for Tao also means ‘pottery’ and was part of his official title, his descendants adopted Tao as their surname.
  2. Japanese: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of tao Families in the US in 1920
Number of tao families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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TAO Ruisong 1925 2005 In loving memory of t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
TAO Ruisong 1925 2005 In loving memory of t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
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