zhuó 卓

Migration and Distribution (Information lacking) The Zhuo surname is not ranked among the top 100 surnames on the Chinese mainland, but it ranks 65th among the surnames in Taiwan. The Zhuo surname originated in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, there was a prince in the State of Chu named Zhuo, also known as Prince Zhuo. Some of Prince Zhuo's descendants took Zhuo as their surname, and they are the earliest origin of the Zhuo surname today. The Zhuo clan multiplied relatively rapidly. The large - scale migration of the Zhuo clan to various places probably occurred during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The "Genealogy of the Loyal and Upright Fellow Countrymen" states: "During the Hu Rebellion in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, the prominent families in the Central Plains fled south one after another. There was a man named Zhuo Wei in Guangdong who served as the governor of Jian'an and later settled there." This is excellent evidence of the Zhuo surname migrating to Guangdong.