How common is the surname Guo?

12,048 people in the United States had the surname Guo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,626 Americans. It ranked 2,975th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Guo?

Guo Jia, Adviser to the warlord Cao Cao (170-207), followed by Guo Tu.

Where is the surname Guo most common?

Wikidata records people named Guo in Eastern Han, China and the United States and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Guo getting more or less common?

More common. 6,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,048 in 2010, up 99%.

The surname Guo

A surname, carried by 12,048 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guo is more common than 98.2% of them.

Origin

From Mandarin 郭 (Guō). Doublet of Kuo and Kwok. More at Guo.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 12,048 people named Guo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,626 Americans. That is up 99% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,058.

#2,975

rank among US surnames

12,048

people in 2010

4.1

per 100,000 Americans

+98.9%

change since 2000 (was #5,287)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,966	Hatton	12,090	25,537
#2,967	Rust	12,086	25,546
#2,968	Duckworth	12,080	25,558
#2,969	Frantz	12,079	25,561
#2,970	O'Reilly	12,074	25,571
#2,971	Bundy	12,065	25,590
#2,972	Bethea	12,061	25,599

Who is named Guo

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

98% of people named Guo identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.1% as white (not Hispanic).

Asian and Pacific Islander 98%
White (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Two or more races 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Famous Guos

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Guo Jia
Adviser to the warlord Cao Cao (170-207)
Guo Tu
Adviser under warlords Yuan Shao and Yuan Tan (died 205)
Tina Guo
American cellist, musician and composer, born 1985
Guo Youzhi
3rd century Shu Han state official
Kuo Lee Chien-Fu
Baseball player, born 1969

Notable Guos come mostly from Eastern Han (1), China (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Guo

Guo has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.

Questions

Where does the surname Guo come from?: From Mandarin 郭 (Guō). Doublet of Kuo and Kwok. More at Guo.
How common is the surname Guo?: 12,048 people in the United States had the surname Guo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,626 Americans. It ranked 2,975th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Guo?: In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Guo identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.1% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Guo?: Guo Jia, Adviser to the warlord Cao Cao (170-207), followed by Guo Tu.
Where is the surname Guo most common?: Wikidata records people named Guo in Eastern Han, China and the United States and 2 other countries.
Is the surname Guo getting more or less common?: More common. 6,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,048 in 2010, up 99%.
What are other spellings of Guo?: Kuo.