Ke (surname)
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, owing to variations in dialect (for instance, O derives from the Cantonese pronunciation of the character) or romanisation system (compare Ke, which derives from Pinyin, with Ko, which derives from Wade-Giles.)
Origin
There are several origins of this last name:
- the descendants of Duke Ke Lu (柯盧) of the State of Wu during the Spring and Autumn period;
- the descendants of a tribe in Northern Wei Dynasty whose surname was originally Keba (柯拔) but was simplified to Ke;
- 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
- Ke Mengde, a Song Dynasty poet
- Ke Jiusi (柯九思), a Yuan Dynasty officer
- Ke Qian, a Ming Dynasty scholar
- Ke Weizhen, 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
- Quah Nian King (柯年庆), prominent entrepreneur in Malaysia and Singapore
Prominent people with the family name Kha
Kha is a Vietnamese variant of the family name Ke (柯)
- Kha Mỹ Vân, a Vietnamese model
See also
References
External links
- Origin of surname Ke, Ker and Quah
- Google group post on Chinese surname Ke number 164
- v
- t
- e
- Tāng 汤/湯
- Xiàng 向
- Cháng 常
- Wēn 温/溫
- Kāng 康
- Shī 施
- Wén 文
- Niú 牛
- Fán 樊
- Gě 葛
- Xíng 邢
- Ān 安
- Qí 齐/齊
- Yì 易
- Qiáo 乔/喬
- Wǔ 伍
- Pāng 庞/龐
- Yán 颜/顏
- Ní 倪
- Zhuāng 庄/莊
- Niè 聂/聶
- Zhāng 章
- Lǔ 鲁/魯
- Yùe 岳
- Zhāi 翟
- Shàn 单/單
- Jì 季
- Péi 裴
- Huò 霍
- Tú 涂
- Chéng 成
- Miáo 苗
- Gǔ 谷
- Shèng 盛
- Qǔ 曲
- Wēng 翁
- Rán 冉
- Luò 骆/駱
- Lán 蓝/藍
- Lù 路
- Yóu 游
- Xīn 辛
- Jìn 靳
- Ōuyáng 欧阳/歐陽
- Guǎn 管
- Chái 柴
- Méng 蒙
- Baò 鲍/鮑
- Bì 毕/畢
- Yù 喻
- Hundred Family Surnames
- List of common Chinese surnames
- 100 Most Common Family Names in Mainland China
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/WPanthroponymy.svg/30px-WPanthroponymy.svg.png)
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.