Ke (surname)

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Ke (Chinese: 柯; pinyin: Kē) is a Chinese surname. It originally appeared on the Hundred Family Surnames.[where?] As of 2006 was no longer one of the top 100 most common surnames.[citation needed] A 2013 study found that it was the 145th most common surname, shared by 1.06 million people or 0.080% of the population, with the province most being Hubei. It is also spelled as Quah, Qua, Kua, Kuah, Kwa, Ke, Ker, Ko, Kok, Or or O in English.[why?]

It is O in Cantonese. (Jyutping: o1)

Origin[]

There are several origins of this last name:

  1. the descendants of Duke Ke Lu (柯盧) of the State of Wu during the Spring and Autumn period;
  2. the descendants of a tribe in Northern Wei Dynasty whose surname was originally Keba (柯拔) but was simplified to Ke;
  3. the descendants of the Qiang tribe or the Xianbei tribe with the last name Ke.

One website lists it as originating from the town of Han in Zhejiang Province[1] while another states it originated in Jiyang Prefecture (located in present-day Dingtao County, Shandong Province) during the Jin Dynasty (266–420).[2]

Prominent people with the family name 柯[]

  • Cua Yi Lam, baptized as Domingo Lamco, patrilineal ancestor of Jose Rizal, Philippine national hero
  • , a Song Dynasty poet
  • Ke Jiusi (柯九思), a Yuan Dynasty officer
  • , a Ming Dynasty scholar
  • , a Qing Dynasty poet
  • Blackie Ko Shou Liang (柯受良), modern director, actor, stuntman
  • Alan Ke You Lun (柯有綸) a Taiwanese singer and actor; son of Blackie Ko Shou Liang
  • Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘), Taiwanese politician
  • Danny Quah Professor of economics, London School of Economics
  • Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew
  • Ko Chen-tung (柯震東), a Taiwanese actor and singer
  • Ko Chia-yen (柯佳嬿), a Taiwanese actress
  • Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), mayor of Taipei
  • Ke Jie (柯洁), a Chinese World Go Champion
  • Quah Chow Cheung (柯昭璋), a Hong Kongese commissioner
  • Simon Ko, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of China
  • Quah Kim Lye, a Singaporean footballer
  • Quah Kim Song (柯金松), a Singaporean footballer
  • Quah Ting Wen (柯婷文), a Singaporean swimmer
  • Quah Zheng Wen (柯政文), a Singaporean swimmer
  • Quah Jing Wen (柯敬文), a Singaporean swimmer
  • Ke Qingshi (柯庆施), senior Chinese politician

Prominent people with the family name Kha[]

Kha is a Vietnamese variant of the family name Ke (柯)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Origin of the surname Ke, Ker, and Quah
  2. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/browse_thread/thread/630137624253b983/f81dbafd6b9b7fff?lnk=st&q=#f81dbafd6b9b7fff

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