How it is written
우 禹 U
Rank and people
Rank 37 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 195,729 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.39% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 우 can be written with more than one hanja.
禹 194,713 people write it with this hanja
- 禹 name of a Chinese emperor
于 756 people write it with this hanja
- 于 going, from
寓 173 people write it with this hanja
- 寓 temporary abode, imply, suggest
宇 48 people write it with this hanja
- 宇 eaves, roof, houseKorean reading 우 · 6 strokes
愚 11 people write it with this hanja
- 愚 foolish, folly, absurdity
牛 11 people write it with this hanja
- 牛 cow
偶 6 people write it with this hanja
- 偶 accidentally, even number, couple
遇 6 people write it with this hanja
- 遇 meet, encounter, interview
尤 5 people write it with this hanja
- 尤 reasonable, just, natural
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: U. Other spellings: Woo, Wu, Wo, Ou, Uh
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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.