Nam (Korean surname)

Nam is a Korean family name meaning "south". The 2000 South Korean census found 257,178 people with this family name, of whom 150,394 belonged to the Uiryeong Nam bon-gwan. According to the same census, the place with the highest frequency of people belonging to that bon-gwan was Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province, where it accounted for 1,021 people, or 1.21% of the population; this represented a significant drop both in numbers and in proportion from the 1985 census, when it accounted for 1,427 people, or 1.71% of the population.^[1]

Korean people with this surname include:

• Nam Sung-yong (1912–2001), bronze winner of the Marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Nam Jung-hyun (born 1933), South Korean author
• Nam Gi-nam (born 1942), South Korean director of movies, cartoons and TV series
• Nam Hae-il (born 1948), South Korean naval officer
• Nam Na-yeong (born 1971), South Korean film editor
• Leonardo Nam (born 1979), Korean Australian actor
• Nam Hyun-hee (born 1981), South Korean foil fencer
• Nam Sang-mi (born 1984), South Korean actress
• Nam Gyu-ri (born 1985), South Korean female singer
• Naomi Nari Nam (born 1985), American figure skater
• Eric Nam (born 1988), Korean-American singer
• Nam Ji-hyun (born 1990), South Korean singer (former member of Kpop girl group 4Minute)
• Nam Woo-hyun (born 1991), South Korean singer (member of Kpop boy band INFINITE)
• Nam Joo-hyuk - South Korean actor, model
• Nam Tae-hyun (born 1994), South Korean singer (former member of Kpop boy band WINNER)
• Nam Ji-hyun (born 1995), South Korean actress
• Nam Dawon (born 1997), South Korean singer (member of Kpop girl group Cosmic Girls)
• Nam Da-reum (born 2002), South Korean actor

See also

A number of Korean given names also contain the same character "nam" meaning south, or another identically-pronounced one (男) meaning "man":

References

External links

• (in Korean) Page for Nam on surname.info