How it is written
하 河 Ha
Rank and people
Rank 32 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 233,106 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.47% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 하 can be written with more than one hanja.
河 230,481 people write it with this hanja
- 河 river
夏 2,475 people write it with this hanja
- 夏 summerKorean reading 하 · 10 strokes
何 105 people write it with this hanja
- 何 what
賀 40 people write it with this hanja
- 賀 congratulations, joyKorean reading 하 · 12 strokes
荷 5 people write it with this hanja
- 荷 baggage, shoulder-pole load, bear (a burden)
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Ha. Other spellings: Hah, Har, Hwa, Haa, Hagh
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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.