How it is written
배 裵 Bae
Rank and people
Rank 26 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 400,669 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.81% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 배 can be written with more than one hanja.
裵 400,641 people write it with this hanja
- 裵 surname, look of a flowing gown
輩 10 people write it with this hanja
- 輩 comrade, fellow, people
培 6 people write it with this hanja
- 培 cultivate, foster
背 6 people write it with this hanja
- 背 stature, height, back
配 6 people write it with this hanja
- 配 distribute, spouse, exile
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Bae. McCune-Reischauer: Pae. Other spellings: Bea, Bai, Pai, Be, Bay
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Sources and credits
- Ranking, population and share: Statistics Korea, 2015 census, 성씨·본관별 인구(5인 이상) - 전국 (population by surname and clan, nationwide), KOSIS table DT_1IN15SD.
- Romanization and spellings: English Wikipedia, "List of Korean surnames", revision 1373629782, by its contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: table reformatted and joined with Statistics Korea and EDRDG data.
- Hanja meanings: KANJIDIC2 (version 2026-272) from the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The EDRDG acknowledgement is at the foot of the page.
- Audio: synthetic speech from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. See the about page.