The Guo surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 6,058 people carried this name — #5,287 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 44,400 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
240 people named Guo live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 126 people named Guo live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 51 people named Guo.
Most of them — 38 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Isère.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Guo in American newspapers,
1879–1943.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 69,598 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Guo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Guo Ying 1335–1403 -
Guo Xu 1456–1532 · painter -
Hyo Motosada 1580–1614 -
Kuo Ping-Wen 1880–1969 · historian -
Guo Longzhen 1894–1931 · political activist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 220 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Guo.
- Gully 1,942 · U.S. census
- Gumbs 1,631 · U.S. census
- Gungor 162 · U.S. census
- Gunst 352 · U.S. census
- Gunther 8,069 · U.S. census
- Guntz 122 · U.S. census
- Gur 155 · U.S. census
- Gurtler 390 · U.S. census
- Gurtner 338 · U.S. census
- Gusse 180 · U.S. census
- Gustave 799 · U.S. census
- Gustin 4,862 · U.S. census
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