How it is written
손 孫 Son
Rank and people
Rank 25 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 457,356 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.92% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 손 can be written with more than one hanja.
孫 457,303 people write it with this hanja
- 孫 grandchild, descendants
遜 39 people write it with this hanja
- 遜 humble, modest
損 8 people write it with this hanja
- 損 damage, loss, disadvantage
蓀 6 people write it with this hanja
- 蓀 aromatic grass, iris, flower
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Son. Other spellings: Sohn, Shon, Sun, Soun, Soon
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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.