How it is written
성 成 Seong
Rank and people
Rank 36 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 199,160 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.40% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 성 can be written with more than one hanja.
成 199,124 people write it with this hanja
- 成 turn into, become, getKorean reading 성 · 6 strokes
盛 13 people write it with this hanja
- 盛 boom, prosper, copulate
宬 9 people write it with this hanja
- 宬 archives, surname
星 8 people write it with this hanja
- 星 star, spot, dotKorean reading 성 · 9 strokes
城 6 people write it with this hanja
- 城 castleKorean reading 성 · 9 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Seong. McCune-Reischauer: Sŏng. Other spellings: Sung, Soung, Seoung, Seung, Song
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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.