Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Gu comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Gu’s family of names
In English usage, Gu as a surname has a related form in KU. In Korean usage, Gu as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 구.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Gu
- Ban GuChinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)
- Yi KuKorean prince (1931-2005)
- Chŏng KuKorean Joseon dynasty politician and educator, poet (1543-1620)
- Shin GooSouth Korean actorborn 1936
- Li GuEastern Han Dynasty person CBDB = 2315390–147
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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