Ok | |
Hangul | 옥 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Ok |
McCune–Reischauer | Ok |
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".
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:
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]
People with the single-syllable given name Ok include:
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: