Jeon (Korean name)

See also: Quan, Chen, Qian (surname), Tian, and Jin (surname)

Jeon (Korean name)
Hangul	전
Hanja	全, 田, 錢
Revised Romanization	Jeon
McCune–Reischauer	Chŏn

Jeon(Jēn) is a rare Korean family name. As of 2000, there were 687,867 people by this name in South Korea. english mark use to Jeon, Jun, Cheon, Chun, etc.

Contents

1 origin
2 List of famous Jeons
3 See also

origin

全 : Quan, Chyun

from Zhou Dynasty public office(官職) name
from Quan Town(全地), place of ancient china
from surname Quan(泉:Chun) in Three Kingdoms, 200~300 AD
from Wan Quan(万全:Man Jeon), Mongol people in Yuan Dynasty 1200 AD
from Jeon Seop(全聶) of Baekje(百濟) 10 BC, he is worker for Onjo of Baekje

田 : Tian, Tin

from Gui(嬀) clan of Qi (state)
from surname Huang(黄)
from surname Guan(官)
from Tian Feng(田豊) of Hubei
from South Korea
- Jeon Fung(田豊) of Namyang jeon clan at goryeo age
- Jeon Duc Si(田得時) of Damyang jeon clan (area of baekje)
- Jeon Jong Hoi(田宗會) of Yeonggwang jeon clan (area of baekje)

錢 : Jian, Qian

from Chu (state) people Qian Liu of Wuyue, he offspring take surname Jin(金, Kim)

List of famous Jeons

Jeon Ji Yoon (4minute)
Jeon Boram (T-ara)
Jeon Du-hwan
Jun Jae-youn
Jeon Byung Wook
Jeon Do-yeon
Jeon Hye Bin
Jeon Jae Hyen
Jeon Hyo-sung
Ha Ji Won (her real name is Jeon Hae-Rim)
Michael Jeon, God of Shorts

See also