How it is written
염 廉 Yeom
Rank and people
Rank 54 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 69,428 people carry the surname in hangul, 0.14% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 염 can be written with more than one hanja.
廉 69,387 people write it with this hanja
- 廉 bargain, reason, chargeKorean reading 렴 · 13 strokes
閻 24 people write it with this hanja
- 閻 town
簾 17 people write it with this hanja
- 簾 bamboo screen, rattan blindKorean reading 렴 · 19 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization: Yeom. McCune-Reischauer: Yŏm. Other spellings: Yum, Youm, Yeum, Yom, Yeoum
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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.