How it is written
국 鞠 Guk
Rank and people
Rank 80 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 20,768 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.04% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 국 can be written with more than one hanja.
鞠 20,547 people write it with this hanja
- 鞠 ball
鞫 124 people write it with this hanja
- 鞫 investigate a crime
菊 43 people write it with this hanja
- 菊 chrysanthemum
國 37 people write it with this hanja
- 國 country
麴 17 people write it with this hanja
- 麴 yeast, leaven, surname
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Guk. McCune-Reischauer: Kuk. Other spellings: Kook, Gook, Kug, Cook, Koog
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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.