How it is written
임 林 Im
Rank and people
Rank 10 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 1,015,200 people carry the surname in hangul, 2.04% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 임 can be written with more than one hanja.
林 823,921 people write it with this hanja
- 林 grove, forestKorean reading 림 · 8 strokes
任 191,261 people write it with this hanja
- 任 responsibility, duty, term
壬 13 people write it with this hanja
- 壬 9th calendar sign
恁 5 people write it with this hanja
- 恁 like this, thus
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Im. Other spellings: Lim, Yim, Rim, Leem, Rhim
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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.