Last name origins & meanings:
- Chinese:
 from a Chinese character meaning
‘cattail’, a long grass that grows in ponds. A family that owned ponds
containing extraordinarily long cattails came to be called by this
name. - Chinese: see Bu.
- Korean: there is
only one Chinese character and one clan for the surname Pu. There is
no historical information on the founder of this clan, but there is a
legend which tells of three men who appeared from a cave on the north
side of Cheju Island’s Halla Mountain. These three men were the
founders of the Yang, Ko, and Pu clans. The mythological founder of
the Pu clan was Pu Ŭl-la. Shortly after the three men emerged from
the cave, a box washed up on the shore of the island. Inside the box
were three beautiful women, horses, cows, and agricultural seed. From
these beginnings, the three established Cheju Island’s T’amnaguk
kingdom and ruled peacefully for centuries. Unlike the descendants of
Yang and Ko, however, the descendants of Pu were for the most part
content to remain on Cheju Island. A 1930 census revealed that 80% of
bearers of the Pu surname were still located on Cheju Island. Pu is
considered a rare surname in Korea today.
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