Eun

Eun
Hangul 은
Hanja

Family/given:
殷: "flourishing"
Given name only:
恩: "grace"

銀: "silver"
Revised Romanization Eun
McCune–Reischauer Ŭn

Eun is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.

As a family name

The Korean family name Eun is written with only one hanja, meaning "flourishing" (殷).[1] The 2000 South Korean Census found 15,657 people with this family name.[2] They traced their origins to three different bon-gwan: Yonan County, South Hwanghae and Kangeum, Kumchon County, North Hwanghae in what is today North Korea, and Haengju (행주동), Goyang, Gyeonggi-do in what is today South Korea.[1]

People with this family name include:

In given names

There are 26 hanja with the reading Eun on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; common ones are listed in the table above. The meaning differs based on the hanja which the name contains.[3] Since the 1970s, a number of given names containing this element have been popular for newborn girls in South Korea, including:

First syllable
Second syllable
  • Ha-eun: 7th place in 2008, 8th place in 2009 and 2011[5][6][7]
  • Ji-eun: 4th place in 1980, 2nd place in 1990[4]
  • Ye-eun: 6th place in 2008, 9th place in 2009[6][7]

Other names containing this element include:

People with the single-syllable name Eun include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean surnames]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  2. ↑ "성씨인구분포데이터 (Surname population and distribution data)". South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  3. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names]. South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 32. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 2011년 인기 이름 리포트 (in Korean). Johnson's Baby Center. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니… 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "남자 → '민준' 여자 → '서연' 가장 많아". Law Times. 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2011-09-19.