Ho (Korean name)

For pseudonyms used by historical East Asian artists and writers (called ho in Korean), see art name.
Ho
Hangul 호
Hanja

Family/given:
扈: retinue
胡: wild
鎬: bright

Given name only:
戶: household
呼: to call
好: good
虎: tiger
號: symbol
号 (variant)
湖: lake
互: mutually
浩: abundant
澔 (variant)
毫: small
豪: heroic
護: to protect

縞: silk
Revised Romanization Ho
McCune–Reischauer Ho

Ho is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, Ho may be written with three different hanja. Those with the family name meaning "retinue" (扈) may belong to one of four different bon-gwan:[1]

The 2000 South Korean census found 6,106 people with these family names.[2]

Given name

There are 49 hanja with the reading "ho" (with variant forms of three of them) on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; common ones are listed in the table at right.[3]

People with the single-syllable given name Ho include:

Several given names containing this syllable were popular for newborn boys in South Korea in various decades of the 20th century, including:[4][5]

Other given names containing this syllable include:

First syllable
Second syllable
 

See also

References

  1. ↑ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ↑ "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name 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. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. ↑ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  5. ↑ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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