Family name origins & meanings
- Chinese :
from the name of Qiao mountain. The ancient
Chinese emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc), considered father
of the Chinese people, is buried on Qiao mountain. In honor of this,
some descendants later adopted the name of the mountain as their
surname. Much later, during the Later Zhou dynasty (951–960
ad), the emperor ordered that the character for this name
(which also means ‘bridge’) be modified to another similar character
of the same pronunciation, the current character for the surname Qiao.