The name originally meant "Upper Hollow," but when civil servants who arrived from mainland China in the late 1940s recorded the name, not understanding the local Minnan dialect they mistranscribed it with characters that can be taken to mean "Utter Numskull."
早期因為登記地籍的外省公務員不懂閩南語，才誤給了這個聽來笨笨卻頗響亮的名稱。