How it is written
소 蘇 So
Rank and people
Rank 58 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 53,856 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.11% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 소 can be written with more than one hanja.
蘇 52,427 people write it with this hanja
- 蘇 be resuscitated, revived, perilla
邵 1,309 people write it with this hanja
- 邵 place name
肖 76 people write it with this hanja
- 肖 resemblanceKorean reading 초 소 · 7 strokes
蕭 15 people write it with this hanja
- 蕭 a weed, mugwort, lonely
小 8 people write it with this hanja
- 小 little, smallKorean reading 소 · 3 strokes
所 5 people write it with this hanja
- 所 place, extent
昭 5 people write it with this hanja
- 昭 shining, brightKorean reading 소 조 · 9 strokes
簫 5 people write it with this hanja
- 簫 pan pipes, flute
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: So. Other spellings: Soh, Sho, Soo, Seo, Sou
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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.