Ok (Korean name)
| Ok | |
| Hangul | 옥 |
|---|---|
| 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".
Family name
[edit]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:
- Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province: 19,368 people and 6,157 households[1]
- Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province: 1,085 people and 345 households[1]
- Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province: 708 people and 232 households[1]
- Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province: 537 people and 174 households[1]
- Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province: 441 people and 145 households[1]
- Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang Province: 467 people and 138 households[1]
- Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province: 197 people and 61 households[1]
- Other or unknown: 161 people and 36 households[1]
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:
- 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
- Ok Ja-yeon (born 1988), South Korean actress
- Ock Joo-hyun (born 1980), South Korean singer, former member of Fin.K.L
- Ok Taec-yeon (born 1988), South Korean singer, member of boyband 2PM
- Justine Ok, 21st-century American artist and songwriter of Korean descent
Given name
[edit]Hanja and meaning
[edit]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]
- 玉 (구슬 옥; guseul ok): "jade"
- 屋 (집 옥; jip ok): "house"
- 獄 (옥 옥; ok ok: "prison"
- 沃 (물 댈 옥; mul dael ok): "irrigate"
- 鈺 (보배 옥; bobae ok): "treasure"
People
[edit]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
[edit]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:
- Jong-ok (unisex)
- Kyung-ok (feminine)
- Myung-ok (feminine)
- Seon-ok (feminine)
- Sun-ok (feminine)
- Yeong-ok (feminine)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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