Koo Family History

Chinese: variant of the surnames 古 顧 辜 and 谷 see Gu. Chinese: Teochew Hokkien and Taiwanese form of the surnames 邱 and 丘 see Qiu. The dialects of this pronunciation are found in eastern Guangdong, Fujian, and Taiwan, from where many people migrated to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Chinese: Hokkien and Taiwanese form of the surname 許 see Xu. The dialects of this pronunciation are found in Fujian and Taiwan, from where many people migrated to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 高 see Gao. Vietnamese: probably from the Chinese surname 邱 (see Qiu) borne by emigrants to Vietnam from eastern Guangdong and Fujian provinces, Romanized in accordance with their dialect pronunciation.

Korean: variant of Ku.