Gu

9,087 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gu in the 2020 census, making it the 3,807th most common in the country. That is about one person in 32,900.

By the numbers

People: 9,087
Rank: 3,807th
How common: 1 in 32,900
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From either cmn or from Chinese.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gu described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Gu

Eileen Gu (born 2003)American-born Chinese freestyle skier
Ban Gu (32–92)Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)
Gu Kaizhi (345–406)Chinese painter and politician (c. 344–406)
Gu Yanwu (1613–1682)Chinese philologist and geographer
Gu Bon-gil (born 1989)South Korean fencer
Bo Gu (1904–1946)Chinese politician
Gu Jun (born 1975)Chinese badminton player
Gu Sung-yun (born 1994)South Korean association football player

People named Gu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gu

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.