Given name & surname
Cao
Cao is a surname from Mandarin. It is used in English, Vietnamese, Czech, and Galician.
Original Chinese八十三
Meaning & origin
Cao’s family of names
In Chinese usage, Cao as a surname has a nickname in 八十三.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cao
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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