Moon (Korean name)


Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, Moon is written with one hanja, meaning "writing". The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 426,927 people and 132,881 households with this family name. They identified with 47 different surviving bon-gwan :
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun.

Given name

Hanja

There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:
  1. : "door"
  2. : "to ask"
  3. : "to listen"
  4. : "writing"
  5. : the name of a body of water
  6. : "warm"
  7. : "design", "pattern"
  8. : plural marker for people
  9. : "to decapitate"
  10. : "lips", "to kiss"
  11. : "dizziness", "disorder"
  12. : "mosquito"
  13. : "cloud patterned"
  14. : "to polish"

    People

People with the single-syllable given name Moon include:
Korean names containing the element Moon include: