Surname Overview
A Rare Surname
The source describes Ba as a rare surname currently used among both Han and Yi people. This is a secondary compilation citing Xing氏 Cidian's quotation of Xingjie and Zhongguo Xingshi Daquan.
拔 Surname
Population reference (not a current census): 3Origins
Toponymic-Origin Account
The source lists one account that Ba was a Spring and Autumn-period place, whose former city lay in present-day Tancheng, Shandong, and that the surname was taken from this place-name.
Xiongnu-Surname Account
The source calls Ba a Xiongnu surname and says that Jin Shu records the Xiongnu commander Ba Yixu leading his tribe to submit in the fifth year of Xianning under Emperor Wu of Jin. This is only the webpage's secondary citation; the original Jin Shu passage was not verified.
Migration and Distribution
Modern Distribution
The source lists Yiyang and Xiangtan in Hunan, Jiangchuan and Tonghai in Yunnan, Huainan in Anhui, and Taichung in Taiwan, but provides neither a survey year nor population figures.
Research Notes
Disputed Tuoba-Derivation Account
The source lists an account that an ancestor of Zhangsun Wuji changed from the Tuoba surname to Ba, but immediately comments that it “should be Baba and appears mistaken”; it therefore does not establish that Ba derived from Tuoba.
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