How it is written
윤 尹 Yun
Rank and people
Rank 9 in South Korea in the 2015 census: 1,020,564 people carry the surname in hangul, 2.05% of the Korean nationals counted.
Hanja spellings
The surname 윤 can be written with more than one hanja.
尹 1,020,547 people write it with this hanja
- 尹 an official rank
允 11 people write it with this hanja
- 允 license, sincerity, permit
潤 6 people write it with this hanja
- 潤 wet, be watered, profit byKorean reading 윤 · 15 strokes
Hanja meanings and Korean readings: KANJIDIC2.
Romanization and spellings
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer: Yun. Other spellings: Yoon, Youn, Yune, Yeun, Yon
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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.