Surname Overview
Surname attestation
The source explicitly treats Ta (沓) as a Chinese surname and describes the tà reading as a currently rare Han Chinese surname, also recorded in the clan-name sections of Zheng Tongzhi and Xu Tongzhi.
Dá Surname
Population reference (not a current census): 1Dá / Ta
Origins
Cong people tradition
According to the page, Xing氏 Kaolüe quotes Fengsu Tong as stating that Ta was one of the seven surnames of the Cong people; the page describes the Cong as a group living around present-day Hunan and Sichuan during the Qin and Han periods.
Notable People
Ta Longchao
The page records Ta Longchao, a native of Jinshou in the late Northern Wei, and says that during the Yongxi era he was captured by the Liang general Fan Wenzhi and died without yielding.
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