Gú

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 33K
  • NONorway1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,532 people, 2010

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gu in US United States, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Russian Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gú counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,5321 in 60K9.1KGu106
ES Spain3781 in 132K378Gu34
SE Sweden1731 in 59K173—3
FI Finland1711 in 33K171—1
NO Norway1241 in 44K124—2
KN St. Kitts & Nevis11 in 54K1——

5,532 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gú is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Gu, Gü, Gû, Gụ, Gư

  • English surname55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, France

    Languages: English, German, French

    Also written Gu, Gue, Gü, Guee, Guè

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gú is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈴 /铃

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bnt-pro, sheep

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, mouton

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Gu Guangming, b. 1959Ku Chin-shui, b. 1960Koh Nai Kwong, b. 1961Victor Koo, b. 1966Louis Koo, b. 1970Leo Ku, b. 1972Julian Ku, b. 1973Gu Li, b. 1983Gu Yasha, b. 1990Gu Lingyi, b. 1991
  • Gu Guangmingb. 1959CNChinese footballer
  • Ku Chin-shuib. 1960TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese track athlete
  • Koh Nai Kwongb. 1961MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian politician
  • Victor Koob. 1966CNnot in their usual namebusinessperson
  • Louis Koob. 1970CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and film producer (born 1970)
  • Leo Kub. 1972CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong pop singer
  • Julian Kub. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican professor of international law (ORCID=0000-0002-9902-404X)
  • Gu Lib. 1983CNChinese Go player
  • Gu Yashab. 1990CNChinese footballer
  • Gu Lingyib. 1991CNChinese Go player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gú under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gú mean, and where does it come from?
From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 2 other sources.
Is Gú a male or female name?
Gú is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Gú have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Gú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gu.
Where is Gú most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gú is densest in Finland — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gú?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,532 people named Gú in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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