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Ok (Korean name)

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Ok
Hangul
Hanja

Family name:

Given name:

Revised RomanizationOk
McCune–ReischauerOk

Ok, sometimes spelled Oak or Ock, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. It is usually written with a hanja meaning "jade".

Family name

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The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people and 7,288 households with the family name Ok.[1] The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) at that time included:

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 84.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Ok in their passports, while another 9.0% spelled it as Ock. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 6.2%) included Oak and Ohk.[2]

People with this family name include:

Given name

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Hanja and meaning

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There are five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[3]

  • (구슬; guseul ok): "jade"
  • (집 옥; jip ok): "house"
  • (옥 옥; ok ok: "prison"
  • (물 댈 옥; mul dael ok): "irrigate"
  • (보배 옥; bobae ok): "treasure"

People

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People with the single-syllable given name Ok include:

  • Yeo Ok, poet of the Gojoseon Kingdom which fell in 108 BC
  • Jeon Ok (1911–1969), South Korean actress
  • Kim Ok (born 1964), North Korean government employee, personal secretary to Kim Jong-il

As name element

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One name containing this element, Kyung-ok, was the 10th-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950.[4]

Names containing this element include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구 [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. ^ 성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of family names: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 59. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  3. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. p. 59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.