Entry № 3462 · Chinese origin

Fu Hao Fu Hao — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FOO HOW /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Earliest documented Chinese female general (Shang)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "earliest documented chinese female general (shang)".

Fu Hao (婦好, d. c. 1200 BCE) was the consort of Shang Dynasty King Wu Dingthe earliest documented female military general in Chinese history, leading armies of 13,000 troops in major campaigns against the Tu Fang and other peoples. She was also a high priestess who performed oracle-bone divinations. Her tomb at Yinxu, discovered intact in 1976, contained over 1,900 artifacts including bronzes, jades, and oracle bones — the only Shang royal tomb ever found unlooted.

The earliest named female general in world history.

Earliest documented Chinese female general. Her undisturbed tomb yielded 1,900 artifacts.

The name in its native script.

婦好
Transliteration
Fù Hǎo
Pronunciation
/ fuː haʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fu Hao stands.

Fu Hao does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fu Haos before her.

Real people
Fu Hao
Shang Dynasty general.
d. c. 1200 BCE
In fiction
Fu Hao
Oracle-bone inscriptions.

Names connected to Fu Hao.

The number behind Fu Hao.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fu Hao reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.