1, from Jiang. According to legend, Emperor Yan Shennong was born in and took Jiang as his surname. Sun Boyi, 17 Yandi, assisted Dayu in water control, and was named Lu Hou, so his descendants also took Lu as their surname. Jiang Shang, the 37th generation grandson of Lv Hou Boyi, namely Jiang Taigong, also known as Lu Shang, helped King Wu destroy Shang Lizhou and was sealed in Qi. Qi passed it on to Sun Wengong and Jiang Chi, the eighth squire, and Wen Gong's second son was sealed in Gaoyi, called Gongzi Gao. According to the aristocratic etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty, his grandson was named Gao Nuo after his ancestors. When Gao Biao was in the state of Qi, he welcomed his son Xiao Bai as the king, that is, Qi Huangong. Become the ancestor of the Gao family in Bohai. The seventh Sun Gaoxi was pushed out by Gong Sunzao and Gong Sunfan in Qi State, and started his career. Sun Gaoliang, the ninth generation of Kochi, was Stuart in the Song Dynasty, and Sun Gaohong, the ninth generation of Kochi 10, was the commander of the Bohai Sea in the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a result, the Gaos in Bohai began to multiply and became the largest Gaos group. Gao Hong's descendants founded the Gao family in Liaodong, and Gao Hong's descendants founded the Gao family in Guangling. The descendants of Bohai Sea are high in rehabilitation, Jing Zhao and Gao Shi. Four of the top five noble families in Gaowu use Bohai high money. Therefore, today's descendants of Gao are mostly descendants of Bohai Gao.

2, with the word Wang Fu as the surname, according to Tongzhi? According to the brief introduction of the genealogy, the son of Qi was named Gongzi Qi, with a high word, and his descendants were Gao and Shandong Gao. In A.D. 10, the son of Qi Huangong and his concubine Second Lieutenant Ji, Qi Huiwang. Qi's son is called Gongzi Qi, with a high word, and his descendants also take Gao as their surname.

3, from other ethnic groups or his surname changed to give surname, minority surname changed to Gao surname. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty carried out reforms and carried out the policy of sinicization. One of the measures is to change the compound surname of the northern Hu people into the single surname of the Han people. During this period, the Xianbei nationality changed its surname from Lou to Gao. According to Wei Shu, some Xianbei people changed their surnames to Gao's, and in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Emperor Murong Yun of Houyan claimed to be a descendant of Levin (one of the legendary five emperors), so he changed his surnames, and some of his descendants changed their compound surnames to single surnames, calling Gao's, which was Gao's in Hebei. From the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, there were many cases in which the Manchu surname was changed to the Han surname, and some of them were transliterated from the Manchu surname to the Han surname, and the Gao family was changed to the Gao family.

4. The compound surname of the two words beginning with the word "Gao" is changed to "Gao" as the surname. For example: Gaoche, Gaodong, Gaotang, Levin and Gao Ling.