Hangul 현 McCune–Reischauer Hyŏn | Revised Romanization Hyeon | |
Hanja Family/given:
玄: "profound"
Given name only:
現: "appear"
賢: "capable"
絃: "string"
縣: "county"
懸: "hoist"
顯: "evident" | ||
Hyun, also spelled Hyeon, Hyon, or Hyoun, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and a popular element in many two-syllable Korean given names.
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As a family name
The family name Hyun is written with only one hanja (玄). The 2000 South Korean Census found 81,807 people with this family name. They trace their origins to three bon-gwan. One of these, Anju, South Pyongan, is located in what is today North Korea. The other two, Seongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do and Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, are both located in what is today South Korea.
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 80.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Hyun in their passports. Another 14.9% spelled it as Hyeon, and 2.2% as Hyoun. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.4%) included Heon and Hyean.
People with the family name Hyun include:
Hanja
There are 35 hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; some common ones are listed in the table above.
People
People with the single-syllable given name Hyun include:
As name element
Many names containing this syllable have been popular for newborn children in South Korea, for newborn girls in the 1950s through the 1990s, and for newborn boys from the 1980s up through the 2010s:
Other given names with this element include: