Given name & surname

Kuo

Kuo is a surname from Mandarin.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kuo comes from Mandarin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Mandarin 郭 (Guō).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kuo’s family of names

In English usage, Kuo as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with GUO. In English usage, Kuo as a surname has a related form in GUO. In English usage, Kuo as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with KWOK.

Walk Kuo’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Kuo

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Kuo, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Chinese

Zuo

“left-hand side”

No U.S. birth series

53% boys · 47% girls

Chinese

Cao

Cao is a surname from Mandarin. It is used in English, Vietnamese, Czech, and Galician.

No U.S. birth series

79% boys · 21% girls

Chinese

Zhuo

“having great intelligence”

No U.S. birth series

50% boys · 50% girls

Chinese

Quách

Quách is a surname from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.

No U.S. birth series

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Chinese

Cù

Cù is a surname from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.

No U.S. birth series

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Chinese

Quế

Quế is a unisex given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.

No U.S. birth series

50% boys · 50% girls

Chinese

Kanghui

Kanghui is a given name from Mandarin.

No U.S. birth series

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Chinese

Kippā

Kippā is a given name. It is used in Tocharian B.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Kuo’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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