Eun

This article is about the Korean name. For the acronym, see EUN (disambiguation).
Eun
Hangul 은
Hanja

Family/given:
殷: "flourishing"
Given name only:
恩: "grace"

銀: "silver"
Revised Romanization Eun
McCune–Reischauer Ŭn

Eun is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.

As a family name

The Korean family name Eun is written with only one hanja, meaning "flourishing" (殷).[1] The 2000 South Korean Census found 15,657 people with this family name.[2] They traced their origins to three different bon-gwan: Yonan County, South Hwanghae and Kangeum, Kumchon County, North Hwanghae in what is today North Korea, and Haengju (행주동), Goyang, Gyeonggi-do in what is today South Korea.[1]

People with this family name include:

In given names

There are 26 hanja with the reading Eun on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; common ones are listed in the table above. The meaning differs based on the hanja which the name contains.[3] Since the 1970s, a number of given names containing this element have been popular for newborn girls in South Korea, including:

First syllable
Second syllable

Other names containing this element include:

People with the single-syllable name Eun include:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean surnames]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ↑ "성씨인구분포데이터 (Surname population and distribution data)". South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 32. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  5. 1 2 2011년 인기 이름 리포트 (in Korean). Johnson's Baby Center. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  6. 1 2 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니… 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  7. 1 2 "남자 → '민준' 여자 → '서연' 가장 많아". Law Times. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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