First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
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from the name of Gao Chai, a disciple of
Confucius during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc).
His descendants adopted this character as their surname; it also means
‘firewood’.
