Mok

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Mok
PronunciationVarious (e.g. /mɔk/, /mok/, /mɒk/)
Language(s)Chinese (Cantonese, Teochew), Dutch, Hungarian, Korean
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Mok is a surname in various cultures. It may be a transcription of several Chinese surnames in their Cantonese or Teochew pronunciations, a Dutch surname, a Hungarian surname, or a Korean surname.

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Origins

Part of the Confucian ritual hall (Korean: jaesil ; Hanja: Zhai Shi ; RR: jaesil ) of the Mok clan of Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea Mok confucian.jpg
Part of the Confucian ritual hall (Korean : 재실; Hanja : 齋室; RR : jaesil) of the Mok clan of Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

Mok may transcribe the pronunciation, in different varieties of Chinese, of some Chinese surnames spelled as Mo or Mu in Pinyin (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation), including:

The Dutch surname Mok is a variant spelling of Mock. [1] The surname Mock might have originated from Moch, a clipping of Mochel (mohel). [7]

The Hungarian surname Mók was originally a given name. That given name might be a hypocorism of Mózes, which is the Hungarian form of the given names Moises or Moses. [1]

There is only one hanja used to write the modern Korean surname Mok: Hwamokhal Mok ( 睦 ; 화목할 목), meaning 'harmonious'. The bearers of this surname are almost all members of the Sacheon Mok clan  [ ko ]. That clan is so named for its bon-gwan (clan hometown) of Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, a city which became part of South Korea after the division of the Korean peninsula. Its members claim descent from Mok Hyo-gi  [ ko ], an official under Gojong of Goryeo. [8] [9] Historically, another hanja meaning 'tree' (木; 나무 목;Namu Mok) had also been used as a surname by the Mok clan of Baekje, but this surname is no longer extant in the Korean peninsula.

Statistics

In the Netherlands, there were 421 people with the surname Mok as of 2007, up from 112 in 1947. [10]

The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,191 people in 2,493 households with the surname Mok; all but ten of those people stated that they were members of the Sacheon Mok clan. [11]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 450 people on the island of Great Britain and nine on the island of Ireland with the surname Mok as of 2011; no bearers of the surname were recorded in Great Britain in 1881. [4]

The 2010 United States Census found 2,707 people with the surname Mok, making it the 11,597th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,134 (13,137th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and five percent as White. [12]

As of 2023 there is one Mok living in Oslo, Norway.

People

Cambodian surname ម៉ុក

Chinese surname 莫

Korean surname 목

Other or unknown

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 605. ISBN   9780199771691.
  2. ↑ Fielde, Adele M. (1883). "莫". A pronouncing and defining dictionary of the Swatow dialect, arranged according to syllables and tones. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. p. 382. Additionally see "莫". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Fielde 1883 , p. 382. Additionally see "穆". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1863. ISBN   9780192527479.
  5. ↑ Fielde 1883 , p. 382. Additionally see "牧". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  6. ↑ Fielde 1883 , p. 382. Additionally see "睦". mogher.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  7. ↑ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva H. (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins. New York: KTAV Publishing House. p. 522. ISBN   0881252972.
  8. ↑ "사천목씨(泗川睦氏)" [Sacheon Mok clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "성씨유래검색: 목(睦)". Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2015. The Jokbo Museum cites the following work for their pages on family names: 김진우 (2009). 한국인 의 역사[The History of Koreans]. 春秋筆法 [Chunchu Pilbeop]. OCLC   502157619.
  10. ↑ "Mok". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "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 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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