Seong

For the Minnan Chinese surname written 常, see Chang (surname), its spelling in Mandarin Pinyin.
Seong
Hangul 성
Hanja

Family or given:
成: "succeed"

Given name only:
姓性城誠盛省聖聲星珹 娍瑆惺醒宬猩筬腥貹胜

晟𦖤
Revised Romanization Seong
McCune–Reischauer Sŏng

Seong, also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

The family name Seong is written with only one hanja, meaning "succeed" or "accomplish" (成). The 2000 South Korean Census found 167,903 people with this family name, up by six percent from 158,385 in the 1985 census. This increase was far smaller than the fifteen percent growth in the overall South Korean population over the same period.[1] They traced their origins to only a single bon-gwan, Changnyeong County.[2] This was also the place where they formed the highest concentration of the local population, with 2,360 people (3.61%).[1]

People with this surname include:

  • Seong Sam-mun (1418–1456), Joseon Dynasty official
  • Seong Hui-ahn (1461–1513), Joseon Dynasty official
  • Seong Hon (1535–1598), Joseon Dynasty official
  • Seong Ui-bin (1753–1786), Joseon Dynasty concubine
  • Seong Baek-in (born 1933), South Korean Tungusologist
  • Sung Jung-mo (born 1957), Brazilian theologian
  • Sung Dong-il (born 1961), South Korean actor
  • Sung Jae-ki (1967–2013), South Korean activist
  • Sung Jung-A (born 1965), South Korean basketball player
  • Sung Hyun-ah (born 1975), South Korean actress
  • Sung Han-Soo (born 1976), South Korean football player
  • Sung Si-kyung (born 1979), South Korean ballad singer
  • Sung Kyung-Mo (born 1980), South Korean football player
  • Sung Yu-ri (born 1981), South Korean pop singer
  • Sung Min (born 1982), South Korean swimmer
  • Seong Kyung-Il (born 1983), South Korean football player
  • Sung Si-Bak (born 1987), South Korean short track speed skater
  • Lea Seong, South Korean fashion designer
  • Sung Nak-yang, South Korean businessman, former CEO of Yahoo Korea

Fictional characters with this surname include:

In given names

Hanja

There are 27 hanja with the reading Seong on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. Twenty-three of these hanja are listed below:[3]

  1. 姓 (성씨 성 seongssi seong): "family name"
  2. 性 (성품 성 seongpum seong): "character", "personality"
  3. 成 (이룰 성 irul seong): "accomplish"
  4. 城 (재 성 jae seong): "city"
  5. 誠 (정성 성 jeongseong seong): "sincere"
  6. 盛 (성할 성 seonghal seong): "abundant"
  7. 省 (살필 성 salpil seong): "to observe"
  8. 聖 (성인 성 seong-in seong): "holy"
  9. 聲 (소리 성 sori seong): "voice"
  10. 星 (별 성 byeol seong): "star"
  11. 珹 (옥 이름 성 ok ireum seong): name of a kind of jade
  12. 娍 (아름다울 성 areumdaul seong): "beautiful"
  13. 瑆 (옥빛 성 okbit seong): "brightness of jade"
  14. 惺 (깨달을 성 ggaedareul seong): "to realise"
  15. 醒 (깰 성 ggael seong): "to awaken"
  16. 宬 (서고 성 seogo seong): "library"
  17. 猩 (성성이 성 seongseong-i seong): "orangutan"
  18. 筬 (바디 성 badi seong): "reed"
  19. 腥 (비릴 성 biril seong): "rotting meat"
  20. 貹 (재물 성 jaemul seong): "property", "valuables"
  21. 胜 (비릴 성 biril seong): "victory"
  22. 晟 (밝을 성 balgeul seong): "bright"
  23. 𦖤: "sharp hearing"[4]

The remaining four characters are variant forms of four of the above characters (成城誠盛), which use 丁 in place of the hook stroke.[3]

People

People with the monosyllabic given name Seong include:

As name element

Many names starting with this element have been popular names for newborn baby boys in earlier decades, according to South Korean government data:[5][6]

Other names containing this element include:

First syllable

 
Second syllable

 

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "성씨인구분포데이터" [Family name population and distribution data]. South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  2. ↑ "한국성씨일람" [List of Korean family names]. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names]. South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 23. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  4. ↑ This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block and might not be displayed or printed properly. It consists of the ear radical (耳) + 星.
  5. ↑ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  6. ↑ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.