How it is written
도 都 Do
Rank and people
Rank 57 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 57,946 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.12% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 도 can be written with more than one hanja.
都 56,850 people write it with this hanja
- 都 metropolis, capital, allKorean reading 도 · 11 strokes
陶 1,037 people write it with this hanja
- 陶 pottery, porcelain
道 35 people write it with this hanja
- 道 road-way, street, district
到 7 people write it with this hanja
- 到 arrival, proceed, reach
度 6 people write it with this hanja
- 度 degrees, occurrence, time
桃 6 people write it with this hanja
- 桃 peachKorean reading 도 · 10 strokes
覩 5 people write it with this hanja
- 覩 see
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Do. McCune-Reischauer: To. Other spellings: Doh, Dho, Doe, Toh, Doo
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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.