Ok (Korean name)
| Ok | |
| Hangul | 옥 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | Family/given: 玉: jade Given name only: |
| 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".
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Family name
The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people with the surname Ok.[1] They belonged to a single bon-gwan, Seonryeong (宣寧), in what is today Hongseong County, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.[2] 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 surname 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.[3]
People with this family name include:
- Ok Kwan-bin (died 1933), Korean independence activist
- Simon Ok Hyun-jin (born 1968), South Korean Roman Catholic priest, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Gwangju
- Ock Joo-hyun (born 1980), South Korean singer, former member of Fin.K.L
- Ok Taecyeon (born 1988), South Korean singer, member of boyband 2PM
- Justine Ok, 21st-century American artist and songwriter of Korean descent
Given name
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 listed in the table at right.[4]
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
One name containing this element, Kyung-ok, was the 10th-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950.[5] Names containing this element include:
- Jong-ok (unisex)
- Kyung-ok (feminine)
- Myung-ok (feminine)
- Seon-ok (feminine)
- Sun-ok (feminine)
- Yeong-ok (unisex)
See also
References
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