Hangul 옥 McCune–Reischauer Ok | Revised Romanization Ok | |
Hanja Family/given:玉: jadeGiven name only:屋: house獄: prison沃: irrigate鈺: treasure | ||
Ok, sometimes spelled Oak or Ock, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. It is usually written with a hanja meaning "jade".
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Family name
The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people with the surname Ok. They belonged to a single bon-gwan, Seonryeong (宣寧), in what is today Hongseong County, Chungcheongnam-do, 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 84.8% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ok in their passports, while another 9.0% spelled it as Ock. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 6.2%) included Oak and Ohk.
People with this family name include:
Given name
There are five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are listed in the table at right.
People with the single-syllable given name Ok include:
One name containing this element, Kyung-ok, was the 10th-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950.
Names containing this element include: