Hangul 호 McCune–Reischauer Ho | Revised Romanization Ho | |
Hanja Family/given:
扈: retinue
胡: wild
鎬: bright
Given name only:
戶: household
呼: to call
好: good
虎: tiger
號: symbol
号 (variant)
湖: lake
互: mutually
浩: abundant
澔 (variant)
毫: small
豪: heroic
護: to protect
縞: silk | ||
Ho is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
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Family name
As a family name, Ho may be written with three different hanja. Those with the family name meaning "retinue" (扈) may belong to one of four different bon-gwan:
The 2000 South Korean census found 6,106 people with these family names.
Given name
There are 49 hanja with the reading "ho" (with variant forms of three of them) on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; common ones are listed in the table at right.
People with the single-syllable given name Ho include:
Several given names containing this syllable were popular for newborn boys in South Korea in various decades of the 20th century, including:
Other given names containing this syllable include: