How it is written
홍 洪 Hong
Rank and people
Rank 21 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 558,994 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.12% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 홍 can be written with more than one hanja.
洪 558,853 people write it with this hanja
- 洪 deluge, flood, vast
烘 57 people write it with this hanja
- 烘 bake, roast, grill
弘 18 people write it with this hanja
- 弘 vast, broad, wideKorean reading 홍 · 5 strokes
哄 9 people write it with this hanja
- 哄 resound, reverberate
紅 9 people write it with this hanja
- 紅 crimson, deep redKorean reading 홍 공 · 9 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Hong. Other spellings: Houng, Heung, Heong, Whong, Hohng
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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.