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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
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.
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Korean personal names. United States: Central Intelligence Agency. 1962. OCLC 453054. Price, Fiona (2007). "Chapter 6: Korean names". Success with Asian names: a practical guide for business and everyday life. Intercultural Press. ISBN 9781857883787
The meaning of a Korean given name differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 30 hanja with the reading "eun" [1] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. The overwhelmingly popular hanja for given names is "恩(grace)" and "銀(silver)".
蔡 (성씨 채 seongssi chae): used as a family name (originally a species of tortoise) 綵 (비단 채 bidan chae): silk; 寨 (목책 채 mokchaek chae): wooden fence; 琗 (옥빛 채 okbit chae): brightness of jade; 砦 (진터 채 jinteo chae): fort; 釵 (비녀 채 binyeo chae): binyeo (traditional Korean hairpin) 責 (빚 채 bit chae): debt
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Mi-kyung or Mi-kyoung, also spelled Mi-gyeong or Mi-gyong is a Korean feminine given name. It was South Korea's most popular name for baby girls in 1968. [ 1 ] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.