How it is written
강 姜 Gang
Rank and people
Rank 7 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 1,269,290 people carry the surname in hangul, 2.55% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 강 can be written with more than one hanja.
姜 1,176,847 people write it with this hanja
- 姜 Chinese surname, ginger
康 91,625 people write it with this hanja
- 康 ease, peace
江 34 people write it with this hanja
- 江 creek, inlet, bayKorean reading 강 · 6 strokes
剛 9 people write it with this hanja
- 剛 sturdy, strength
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Gang. McCune-Reischauer: Kang. Other spellings: Khang, Kahng, Kwang, Ghang, Kaing
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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.