Hangul 문 McCune–Reischauer Mun | Revised Romanization Mun | |
Hanja Family/given:文 門Given name only:問聞汶炆紋們刎吻紊蚊雯抆 | ||
Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
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Family name
As a family name, Moon is written with one hanja, meaning "writing" (文; 글월 문 geulwon mun). The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 426,927 people and 132,881 households with this family name. They identified with 47 different surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members):
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun.
Hanja
There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:
People
People with the single-syllable given name Moon include:
As name element
Korean names containing the element Moon include: