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Question:This is what www.ancestry.com had to say about the name,
Ho
Korean (Ho): there is only one Chinese character for the Ho surname. Some records indicate that there are fifty-nine Ho clans, but only four have been identified and documented. All four clans descend from the same founding ancestor. In ad 48, a sixteen-year-old Indian princess is said to have arrived by boat on the shores of Korea. The Karak Kingdom’s King Suro married the woman, and out of respect for her origins allowed the second of their ten children to retain his mother’s surname, Ho. The Ho surname is very common and is widely distributed throughout the Korean peninsula.
Vietnamese (H?`): unexplained.
Chinese: variant of He.
hope this helps.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is what www.ancestry.com had to say about the name,
Ho
Korean (Ho): there is only one Chinese character for the Ho surname. Some records indicate that there are fifty-nine Ho clans, but only four have been identified and documented. All four clans descend from the same founding ancestor. In ad 48, a sixteen-year-old Indian princess is said to have arrived by boat on the shores of Korea. The Karak Kingdom’s King Suro married the woman, and out of respect for her origins allowed the second of their ten children to retain his mother’s surname, Ho. The Ho surname is very common and is widely distributed throughout the Korean peninsula.
Vietnamese (H?`): unexplained.
Chinese: variant of He.
hope this helps.

Mainland China, originally!

You don't want to know. It might be job-related!

Just kidding, I'm sure it's a name with nothing but honor and glory surrounding it.

I think its form clans of the past. like the Smith clan or MC Kenzy clan of old. and when people left their clans they still kept the name of the clans like last names. like john of the smith clan, or john smith.