How it is written
금 琴 Geum
Rank and people
Rank 71 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 25,472 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.05% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 금 can be written with more than one hanja.
琴 25,432 people write it with this hanja
- 琴 harp, kotoKorean reading 금 · 12 strokes
金 25 people write it with this hanja
- 金 gold
芩 8 people write it with this hanja
- 芩 salt marsh plant
禁 7 people write it with this hanja
- 禁 prohibition, ban, forbid
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Geum. McCune-Reischauer: Kŭm. Other spellings: Keum, Kum, Gum, Kuem, Guem
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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.