xià hóu 夏侯

Migration and Distribution (No information available) The Xiahou surname is not listed among the top 100 surnames in the Mainland and Taiwan. From the records in the two books, "Xing Pu" and "New Book of Tang - Genealogies of Prime Ministers", we can clearly understand the historical origin of the Xiahou clan. The Xiahou clan and the single - character Xia clan are originally of the same family, with the Xia clan being the elder and the Xiahou clan being the younger. After the State of Qi was annexed by the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period (around 445 BC), Tuo, the younger brother of Duke Jian of Qi, fled to the State of Lu. Duke Dao of Lu enfeoffed him as a marquis because he was a descendant of Yu the Great, and thus he was called Xiahou. His descendants later took Xiahou as their surname. The history of the Xiahou surname should be about 2,400 years old. The prominent ancestral regions of the Xiahou clan are Qiao Commandery and Lu Commandery. Qiao Commandery was established during the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and its area is between present - day Anhui and Henan provinces. Lu Commandery was originally Xue Commandery in the Qin Dynasty and was changed to the State of Lu in the early Western Han Dynasty. It was then changed to Lu Commandery during the Three Kingdoms (Wei) and Jin Dynasty, and its area is equivalent to present - day Qufu and Sishui in Shandong Province.