How it is written
백 白 Baek
Rank and people
Rank 27 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 382,447 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.77% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 백 can be written with more than one hanja.
白 381,986 people write it with this hanja
- 白 whiteKorean reading 백 배 · 5 strokes
百 443 people write it with this hanja
- 百 hundredKorean reading 백 맥 · 6 strokes
伯 12 people write it with this hanja
- 伯 chief, count, earlKorean reading 백 패 · 7 strokes
柏 6 people write it with this hanja
- 柏 oak, cypress
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Baek. McCune-Reischauer: Paek. Other spellings: Back, Baik, Paik, Beak, Baeg
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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.