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Indigenous surname · Maya

Ku

"sacred, god"

Say it

KOO

Where it comes from

Yucatec k'uh (god, sacred thing; also a nest)

Meaning of the surname Ku

Ku is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "sacred, god". It is a regional surname. About 26,000 to 29,000 people in Yucatán. Often written Kú.

Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Ku appears as either half of a pair: Ku García, López Ku. Read how the two-surname system works.

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