Taiwan MOI compound surname supplement #12
张廖
张廖 is read as Zhāngliào. It appears in Taiwan Ministry of the Interior 112 National Name Statistics as a local registered compound surname.
Zhāngliào
Simplified 张廖 · Traditional 張廖
registered compound surname in Taiwan household records
Earth
Time: Observed in Taiwan MOI 112 household-registration statistics, 2023-06-30
Place: Taiwan municipalities and counties; table 11 reports local top-five compound surnames
Origin
张廖 appears in Taiwan Ministry of the Interior 112 National Name Statistics table 11 as one of the local top-five compound surnames in at least one municipality or county. Treat it as a modern registered compound-surname signal, not automatically as a classical Bai Jia Xing compound surname.
Name meaning
Read 张廖 as one two-character surname when it appears in Taiwan-style household-registration contexts. For English-speaking users, label it as a Taiwan registered compound surname rather than a general mainland default surname.