Surname Overview
Shou is a rare surname and is ranked 311th in the Song-era edition of the Hundred Family Surnames.
Shou Surname
Population reference (not a current census): 44,183Shou / Shou
Origins
Two origin traditions are recorded: one traces the surname to Ji lineage descendants of King Shoumeng of Wu who adopted an ancestral name as their surname; the other traces it to descendants of Peng Zu.
Historical Records
Founder and Attestations
Shoumeng is regarded as the founding ancestor of the Shou surname. The Fengsu Tong records the lineage as descendants of King Shoumeng of Wu, who was the fourteenth-generation descendant of Zhouzhang.
Migration and Distribution
Contemporary Distribution
Among Shou-surname users of the genetic testing service, ancestral origins are concentrated mainly in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai: Zhejiang accounts for 77.6%, while Jiangsu and Shanghai each account for 6.1%.
Notable People
Historical Figures
Historical figures with the Shou surname include the Yuan-dynasty monk Shouning and the Western Han Marquis of Shouguang.
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