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Pages in category "Korean masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 280 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Given names for an explanation. List Ga ...
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. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved.
There are the following lists of Korean names: List of Korean given names; List of the most popular given names in South Korea; List of Korean surnames; See also
Won is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 47 hanja with the reading "won" [2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Korean names are names that place their origin in, or are used in, Korea. 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 ...
A few names containing this syllable have been popular over the years. Jun-young and Joon-ho were popular names for newborn boys in the 1970s through 1990s. [3] In the late 2000s and early 2010s, more names containing this syllable became popular, including Min-jun, Jun-seo, Ye-jun, Hyun-jun, and Seo-jun.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea: [3] Ji-hoon , the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s [ 4 ] [ 5 ]