Hangul 백 Revised Romanization Baek, Baik | Hanja 白 McCune–Reischauer Paek, Paik | |
Baek, also often spelled Paek, Baik or Paik, is of lord classed family name which can be traced as far as 8000 years between China and Korea Korean family name. No one really know the true origin in which it started either in China or Korea as both history timeline were similar. In the year 2000, there were 351,275 people with this surname in South Korea. The word means the color white.
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白/existence
白(Bai) is pronounced "Beck" in Korean. The name has a Cantonese origin from the Yuan dynasty and Goryeo dynasty.
苩/extinction
Some Baekje refugees from the late Silla age had this surname.
List of famous Baeks
Sungwon Baik reporter of voa
References
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