Ku (古)
A Taiwanese surname.
古 Ku
- Zhuyin
- ㄍㄨˇ
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Wade-Giles
- Ku
- Further spellings of 古
- Gu
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Kóo
- Hakka (Sixian)
- gu³¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 68th most common surname, roughly 0.18% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
It means 'ancient, old' and 'antiquity'.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Gugong Danfu (古公亶父), the grandfather of King Wen of Zhou; some of his descendants took 古 from his title. Hall name (堂號): 新安堂.
Saying it 我姓古 — wǒ xìng gǔ (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨˇ), "my family name is 古"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).