Given name & surname

Pu

Pu is a surname from Mandarin.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Pu comes from Mandarin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Pu’s family of names

In English usage, Pu as a surname has a related form in BOO.

Walk Pu’s family in the name graph

PuBooBu蒲普朴부

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

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Nicknames & forms 1

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

Across languages 5

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

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Wade–Giles

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Wade–Giles

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Chinese

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