How it is written
원 元 Won
Rank and people
Rank 47 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 130,174 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.26% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 원 can be written with more than one hanja.
元 129,522 people write it with this hanja
- 元 beginning, former time, origin
袁 498 people write it with this hanja
- 袁 long kimono
原 54 people write it with this hanja
- 原 meadow, original, primitive
阮 45 people write it with this hanja
- 阮 place name
苑 21 people write it with this hanja
- 苑 garden, farm, park
院 21 people write it with this hanja
- 院 Inst., institution, temple
圓 13 people write it with this hanja
- 圓 yen, circle, round
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Won. McCune-Reischauer: Wŏn. Other spellings: Weon, Woon, One, Wone, Woun
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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.