How it is written
오 吳 O
Rank and people
Rank 14 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 763,334 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.54% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 오 can be written with more than one hanja.
吳 763,281 people write it with this hanja
- 吳 give, do something for, kingdom of Wu (meaning of the variant 呉)
伍 22 people write it with this hanja
- 伍 five, five-man squad, file
吾 19 people write it with this hanja
- 吾 I, my, ourKorean reading 오 · 7 strokes
五 6 people write it with this hanja
- 五 fiveKorean reading 오 · 4 strokes
晤 6 people write it with this hanja
- 晤 clear
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: O. Other spellings: Oh, Ou, Ohe, Oe, Olh
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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.