Guo (surname 國)
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| Traditional Chinese | 國 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 国 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. It is the 354th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
It should not be confused with the much more common surname Guō (郭) (lit. 'city wall').