How it is written
박 朴 Bak
Rank and people
Rank 3 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 4,192,080 people carry the surname in hangul, 8.43% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 박 can be written with more than one hanja.
朴 4,192,074 people write it with this hanja
- 朴 crude, simple, plain
博 6 people write it with this hanja
- 博 Dr., command, esteemKorean reading 박 · 12 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Bak. McCune-Reischauer: Pak. Other spellings: Park, Pack, Bark, Bag, Papk
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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.