Hangul 명 McCune–Reischauer Myŏng | Revised Romanization Myeong | |
Hanja Family/given:
明
Given name only
名命鳴銘溟暝椧皿瞑茗
蓂螟酩慏洺眀䳟冥 | ||
Myung, also spelled Myeong, Myong, or Myoung, 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
The surname Myeong is derived from the Chinese surname Ming, written with the hanja 明, meaning "bright" or "brilliance". The 2000 South Korean census estimated that 26,746 people had this family name. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 62.1% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Myung in their passports. The Revised Romanisation spelling Myeong was in second place at 18.9%, while another 16.2% used the spelling Myoung. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.8%) included Myeoung.
People with this family name include:
Hanja
There are 19 hanja with the reading "myeong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
People
People with the single-syllable given name Myung include:
As name element
One name containing this element, Myung-sook, was the fifth-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950. Names containing this element include: