Bai Jia Xing compound surname #33
亓官
亓官 is read as Qíguān. It is one of the 60 compound surnames in the expanded Bai Jia Xing sequence.
Qíguān
Simplified and traditional 亓官
ritual office-title surname, linked with Qiguan/Jiguan hairpin or capping rites
Metal
Time: Spring and Autumn to Warring States ritual-office tradition, 770-221 BCE
Place: Ritual-official line; no single secure birthplace
Origin
亓官 is identified in surname sources with 丌官 or 笄官, an official connected with hairpin and adulthood rites. No single early founder or birthplace is secure, so it should be described as a ritual-office surname.
Name meaning
The surname evokes rites of adulthood, ritual propriety, and old family ceremony. Confucius's wife is traditionally recorded as a woman of the Qiguan clan.
Historical figures
亓官氏 Lady Qiguan
Kongzi Jiayu records Confucius marrying a woman of the Qiguan clan.