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This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
Lee (Korean surname) Lee, I, or Yi ( 이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim ( 김 ). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population. [1]
Origin. The first historical document that records the surname dates to 636 and references it as the surname of Korean King Jinheung of Silla (526–576). In the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 935 CE)—which variously battled and allied with other states on the Korean peninsula and ultimately unified most of the country in 668—Kim was the name of a family that rose to prominence and became the ...
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong ( Korean : 성명 ; Hanja : 姓名 ), seongham ( 성함 ; 姓銜 ), or ireum ( 이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space ...
Ancient Korean variation of the word sarang (사랑), meaning "love". Da-son Unisex Tason Da-son 다손 From the ancient Korean adjective form of the verb dasoda (다소다), meaning "loving". Dasoni Unisex Tasoni Da-so-ni 다소니 From the ancient Korean adjective form of the verb dasoda (다소다), meaning "a loving and affectionate person ...
Jeon (surname) Jeon (전), also often spelled Jun, Chun or Chon, is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000, there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja, each with different meanings and indicating different lineages. [1]
Park ( Korean : 박, Korean pronunciation: [pak̚] ), also spelled as Pak or Bak is the third-most common surname in Korea, [1] traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak ( 박 ), meaning "gourd". [2]
Choi ( Korean : 최; Hanja : 崔) is a Korean family surname. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were around 2.3 million people by this name in South Korea or roughly 4.7% of the population. [1] In English-speaking countries, it is most often anglicized as Choi, and sometimes also Chey, Choe or Chwe.