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Guo (trad. 國, simp. 国) is a Chinese surname. It is Romanized as Kuo in Wade-Giles, Kok in Min Nan and Gwok in Cantonese. According to a 2013 study, it was the 339th most common name in China; it was shared by 171,000 people, or 0.013% of the population, being most popular in Shandong.[2] It is the 354th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[3]
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| Traditional Chinese | 國 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 国 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | country[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It should not be confused with the much more common surname Guō (郭) (lit. 'city wall').[4]
The surname Guo is claimed to derive from:
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