This List of South Korean surnames by prevalence ranks Korean family names by population and includes homophonous

hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

characters. Data are provided by the

South Korean government The Government of South Korea is the union government of the South Korea, Republic of Korea, created by the Constitution of South Korea as the executive, legislative and judicial authority of the republic. The president acts as the head of sta ...

and only include family names used by more than five people. (The North Korean government does not publish such data.) This is an abridged version of the statistics. For the whole report, please refer to the link below.

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provided by the ROK National Statistical Office. The total population was 49,705,663 for the statistical sample, which does not include any data from

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

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