How it is written
양 梁 Yang
Rank and people
Rank 22 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 530,554 people carry the surname in hangul, 1.07% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 양 can be written with more than one hanja.
梁 460,600 people write it with this hanja
- 梁 weir, fish trap, beam
楊 69,101 people write it with this hanja
- 楊 willowKorean reading 양 · 13 strokes
粱 446 people write it with this hanja
- 粱 high quality rice
揚 214 people write it with this hanja
- 揚 raise, elevate, hoistKorean reading 양 · 12 strokes
陽 163 people write it with this hanja
- 陽 sunshine, yang principle, positiveKorean reading 양 · 12 strokes
洋 12 people write it with this hanja
- 洋 ocean, sea, foreignKorean reading 양 · 9 strokes
樑 6 people write it with this hanja
- 樑 bridge, beam
樣 5 people write it with this hanja
- 樣 Esq., way, manner
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Yang. Other spellings: Ryang, Yaung, Young, Yahng, Yhang
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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.