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O or Oh is a family name in Korea. It is written using the hanja characters,吳,五,伍,吾,and 晤. According to the 2015 census in South Korea,there were 763,281 people carrying the O surname.
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Yeon or less commonly Youn (연) is a Korean surname. The name may correspond to the Chinese surnames Yan or Lian (連). The hanja 延is much more common than 燕and 連. Yeon may also refer to the extinct surname (淵).
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- ↑ Population figures are based on 2000 South Korean census from the Korean National Statistical Office. The figures for the 22 most popular surnames include estimates from North Korea, while figures for other names refer to South Korea only.
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