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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.
This is a list of the most popular given names in South Korea, by birth year and gender for various years in which data is available.. Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned.
The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 people with these family names. [2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports , it was found that 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu.
The Wonhwa (original flowers) were a class of female warrior cadets in 6th-century Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It is not clear to what extent they ever engaged in battle. Created in the reign of King Jinheung, the first group of Wonhwa consisted of about 300 young girls chosen for their beauty and skill. Their leaders were two women.
Sun-young, also spelled Seon-young or Seon-yeong, is a Korean unisex given name, predominantly feminine. It was the ninth- most popular name for baby girls born in South Korea in 1970, and held the same rank in 1980.
Im or Lim (Korean: 임) is a common Korean family name. The surname is identical to the Chinese character of the same name. The surname is identical to the Chinese character of the same name. [ a ] According to the initial law of the Korean language, both "Im" and "Lim" are interchangeable.
Korean clans are groups of Korean people that share the same paternal ancestor. They are indicated by the combination of a bongwan (Korean: 본관; lit. place of origin) and a family name. [1] Korean clans distinguish clans that happen to share the same family name. The bongwan identifies descent groups by geographic place of origin. [2]
As a surname, Sun-woo is written with the hanja 鮮 于. Taewon Sunwoo clan is one of the Korean clans.The bon-gwan of the surname is Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. [2] The 2000 South Korean census estimated that there were 3,560 people with this surname in South Korea, making it the second-most common two-syllable surname in the country.