How it is written
민 閔 Min
Rank and people
Rank 40 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 171,799 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.35% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 민 can be written with more than one hanja.
閔 171,740 people write it with this hanja
- 閔 grieve, be sad, pity
民 36 people write it with this hanja
- 民 people, nation, subjectsKorean reading 민 · 5 strokes
敏 7 people write it with this hanja
- 敏 cleverness, agile, alert
珉 6 people write it with this hanja
- 珉 stone resembling jade
悶 5 people write it with this hanja
- 悶 be in agony, worry
旻 5 people write it with this hanja
- 旻 the autumn sky
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Min. Other spellings: Minn, Mihn, Meen, Mheen, Mean
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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.