Quach (also spelled Quách) is a

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...

surname: Quách romanized in English: Quach. In Japanese, the surname Quach is: Kuoko, Kaku or Kuruwa (くるわ/ かく ) and in Korean: Gwak (곽). The name derives from the

Chinese surname Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicization, Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, ...

郭 "Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, Kwee, Kwek, ...

, which is pronounced Guō and gwok3 in the

dialects A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or iso ...

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

and

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

respectively. In Hindi, the surname

Kak Kak or KAK may refer to: People *Ram Chandra Kak (1893–1983), Indian politician, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir *Amar Nath Kak (1889–1963), Indian writer, brother of Ram *Siddharth Kak, Indian film and television director *Subhash Kak, I ...

is also similar to the surname Quach.

History

Quach came from the surname Guo which is believed to have originated from ShanxiOrigin of the surname Guo, Kuo, Kuok, Kwok
/ref> province of China. Eventually it spread to Chaozhou, also known by its postal spelling of Teochew, a city in the eastern part of China's

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

province. 30 percent of Chinese in Vietnam speak the Teochew dialect. Guo was translated into Quach when it arrived to Vietnam. Some people have moved to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and any southern Asian countries.

General Quách Bốc

A subordinate of Bỉnh Di named Quách Bốc, just after being informed, led his army battering the Đại Thanh Gate of the citadel down to save his governor. Two brothers, Phạm Du and Phạm Kinh, killed both Bỉnh Di and his son and then escaped out of the citadel with Cao Tông.

Chinese

This surname is on the 144th place of the

Baijiaxing The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dy ...

. According to one myth, the people with the surname of the descendants of Xia Yu: Guo Ai /郭哀and Guo Zhi /郭支.

Middle names

Quach kept a book of middle names, spelling out the descendants of the next several dozen generations. The first-born son would look up the name for his generation in the book and name his own first-born son accordingly. The book is in its 26th generation, having been disrupted at least four times since the book's legend by the dislocation of the son who was supposed to continue the naming tradition. There was a brief Vietnamese dynasty that carried the Quach name.

Notable individuals

Bao Quach Bao Quach (born September 4, 1979) is an American featherweight professional mixed martial artist who has fought for Bellator, Affliction, M-1 Global, EliteXC, Strikeforce, World Extreme Cagefighting, King of the Cage, and Shooto promotions. ...

, Vietnamese American mixed martial artist * Quach My Linh, Vietnamese Hat Vendor https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN21O161/ *

Danh Quach Quách Nhứt Danh, often referred to as Danh Quach or Danh Nhut Quach, is a Vietnamese American businessman and one of the "pioneers" of Orange County's Little Saigon. Early life He was a pharmacist in Saigon, Vietnam, but fled in 1975 with his ...

(Quách Nhứt Danh) Businessman and one of the Pioneers of Orange County's Little Saigon * Helen Quach - Australian conductor * Quách Tĩnh son of Emperor Complaints Guo and Li Binh

References

External links

www.yutopian.com/names
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