How it is written
신 申 Sin
Rank and people
Rank 11 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 986,001 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.98% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 신 can be written with more than one hanja.
申 741,081 people write it with this hanja
- 申 have the honor to, sign of the monkey, 3-5PMKorean reading 신 · 5 strokes
辛 192,877 people write it with this hanja
- 辛 spicy, bitter, hot
愼 51,865 people write it with this hanja
- 愼 care, chastity
莘 81 people write it with this hanja
- 莘 long, numerous, marsh plant whose root is used for medicine
新 74 people write it with this hanja
- 新 newKorean reading 신 · 13 strokes
信 12 people write it with this hanja
- 信 faith, truth, fidelityKorean reading 신 · 9 strokes
伸 11 people write it with this hanja
- 伸 expand, stretch, extendKorean reading 신 · 7 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Sin. Other spellings: Shin, Sheen, Sihn, Shinn, Synn
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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.