In (Korean name)

In
Hangul	인
Hanja	Family/given: 印 Given name only 人引仁因忍認寅姻咽湮 絪茵蚓靷刃芢㲽牣璌韌 氤儿諲濥秵戭
Revised Romanization	In
McCune–Reischauer	In

In is an uncommon Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, In may be written with one hanja, meaning "mark" or "seal" (印; 도장 인). It has one bon-gwan: Donggyo, in what is today Seoul, South Korea.^[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 20,635 people with this family name.^[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 86.9% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as In in their passports. Alternative spellings (the remaining 13.1%) included Yin.^[3]

People with this family name include:

• In Jae-keun, South Korean democracy activist
• In Gyo-jin (born 1980), South Korean actor
• In Joon-yeon (born 1991), South Korean footballer

Given name

There are 29 hanja with the reading "in" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; 27 are listed in the table at right (two are not displayed due to encoding issues).^[4]

People with the single-syllable given name In include:

• Song In (died 1126), Goryeo Dynasty male civil official
• Hwangbo In (died 1453), Joseon Dynasty male civil official
• Kim In (born 1943), South Korean male Go player
• Lee In (volleyball) (born 1952), South Korean male volleyball player
• Lee In (actor) (born 1984), South Korean male actor
• Cui Ren (Korean name Choe In, born 1989), Chinese football player of Korean descent

One name containing this element, In-sook, was the 8th-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1950.^[5] Names containing this element include:

First syllable In-hye (feminine) In-sik (masculine) In-soo (unisex) In-sook (feminine) In-young (unisex)

Second syllable Ga-in (feminine) Hye-in (feminine) Jae-in (unisex)

See also

• List of Korean family names
• List of Korean given names

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. 성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 60. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
4. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
5. "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.