Jeong (surname)


Jeong is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정", also often spelled Chung, Jung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. The Korean family name "정" is mainly derived from three homophonous hanja. , and . The rest of the homophonous hanjas include: , , , and .

Latin-alphabet spelling

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on a sample of year 2007 applications for South Korean passports, it was found that 48.6% of people with this surname chose to have it spelled in Latin letters as Jung in their passports. The Revised Romanization transcription Jeong was at second place with 37.0%, while Chung came in third at 9.2%. It was the only one out of the top five surnames for which the Revised Romanization spelling was used by more than a few percent of applicants.
Rarer alternative spellings included, in order of decreasing frequency, Joung, Cheong, Chong, Jeoung, Jeung, Choung, Jong, Cheung, Juong, Jeng, Chyung, Jaung, Jueng, and Zheng. The spelling Jong, rare in South Korea, is official in North Korea's modified version of the McCune–Reischauer transcription system.

Lineages

The Korean family name Jeong can be written with either of three homophonous hanja. Each of those three are broken down into a number of clans, identified by their bon-gwan, which indicate different lineages.

Most common (鄭)

is the most common of the three Jeong names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name Zheng, and before that the name of a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty. In the 2015 South Korean census, 2,010,117 people and 626,265 households had this family name. These people identified with 136 different bon-gwan.. Some examples of these clans are Dongnae, Gyeongju, Jinju, Yeonil, Hadong, Naju, Chogye, Cheongju and Haeju.

Second-most common (丁)

is the second-most common of the three Jeong names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name Ding. In the 2015 census, 187,975 people and 58,431 households had this family name. These people identified with 23 different bon-gwan, including:
  1. Naju: 82,863 people and 25,786 households.
  2. Jinju: 24,598 people and 7,661 households.
  3. Yeonggwang: 21,774 people and 6,839 households.
  4. Changwon: 16,141 people and 4,989 households.
  5. Yeongseong: 10,429 people and 3,279 households.
  6. Gukseong: 9,620 people and 2,984 households.
  7. Haeju: 5,381 people and 1,683 households.
  8. Aphae : 3,335 people and 1,079 households. They claim descent from Jeong Deok-seong, who was born in a village called Dingying in Dengzhou, China and came to the Korean peninsula during the reign of Munjong of Goryeo. Later on, other Jeong clans branched off from them, and became more numerous.
  9. Other or unreported: 13,834 people and 4,131 households.

    Least common (程)

is the least-common of the three Jeong names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name Cheng. In the 2015 census, 32,519 people and 10,220 households had this family name. These people identified with 15 different bon-gwan, including:
  1. Dongnae: 10,632 people and 3,321 households.
  2. Gyeongju: 9,026 people and 2,934 households.
  3. Hanam: 7,766 people and 2,355 households.
  4. Other or unreported: 5,095 people and 1,610 households.

    Notable people

The following is a list of notable people with the Korean family name Jeong, grouped by area of notability and ordered by year of birth. Names are presented in the form they are given on the respective articles, which may have the family name first or last, or which may be a stage name or pen name. People should only be included in this list if they have their own Wikipedia articles or if they are discussed in a non-trivial fashion in Wikipedia articles on notable groups or events with which they are associated.

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