What are most of your Korean friends’ family names?
여러분 한국 친구들 대부분의 성은 뭐예요?

Very interesting, thank you!

Most of the people I know are 김, 박, 이 or 정.

I know lots, 김, 박, 이, 권, 조, 배, 방, 변, 송, 용, 윤, 최, 한, 황, 마, 신, 심, 임, 장, 홍…I could go on, but thats because I teach in Korea and have lots of students, coworkers, friends, neighbors, etc.

If I became a nationalized citizen, I would create my own family name of 마 because my 3-letter name in Korea is 마이클 and my students call me 마샘. ㅋㅋ

نعم احب اعرف
yesh i wante know
this is good question
turned in my mind for a long time like kim park
gamsahamnida

by the way? Is there a 陳 in Korea? And what’s its Hangul counterpart?

Shena

Wow thanks for the detailed list ^^

王龍碩

Yes, we do have a 陳 in Korea and it’s pronounced “진” ^^

Yeah…

Especially the 두 글자 성 Anyone ever met someone with a two syllable family name? I saw it in a movie once.. 남공 달 was the characters name. He made this joke “남공 is my family name, so don’t call me 공달” ㅎㅎㅎ

The former principal at my school had a two-syllable family name. Ive also seen a student with no family name - only two syllables for the whole name. And I even have a student named 엘리사. The homeroom teacher told me it is a name from the Bible. Seems like the nature of Korean names is changing somewhat these days.

ESLMiguel

I guess I know who that is!

And did one of your students really not have a family name??? That’s really shocking

I want have Korean name. What do u think? what kind of name will be match with me….

Gamsahamnida

It seems like many official Korean forms and templates don’t always accomodate people with four syllable blocks in their names. At my academy, I had two sisters whose family name was 고은, and their “first” names had two syllable blocks, for a total of four. It always seemed like their names were cut off on attendance sheets, rosters, and other paperwork.

테레사 : )

황 테레사 suits you ^^ I have a lot of close friends whose last names are 황

firsty
What kind of name do you want? ^^ And what’s your full name? Maybe we can think of something similar to your full name

naohel
Hehe. it’s an honor!

Daniel
True, true, true ! I always thought it was funny that everything has only three blocks of space when some people had four letters in their names

Eden
나 is a good last name. Easy to pronounce and remember. When I was a child, people weren’t really used to the last name “선” so everybody thought I was saying “손” which is a more common last name. I’ve just checked my cellphone and I have more friends with 나 in their last name than I thought! - three of them are “나”

And ‘본관’ - you wrote it correctly. ^^

I already have a chinese name, 罗安德 (luo2 an1 de2)

A korean friend said a Korean equivalent would be “Na An te” 나안태?

Does it sound good? :/

My name is 罗子杰, when i was at uni with a whole group of koreans, one translated my name to 나와걸 or something similar. It was unanimous that it sounded ridiculous!

Typo… in Korean…not in Hanja. LOL

I’d like to add 李卓妍 with the names。:) 감사합니다!

독일 … sorry, I misspelled Germany…and I’m sure there are more errors as well…

Thanks guys, call me 자걸.

My best friend in Korea gave me a Korean name…이태웅. Just curious, what would that be in hanja?

현우,

사실은… “규리” 내 진정한 이름 안인데요
내가 이 이름을 골랐어요. 우리 어머니가 안 골랐어요. I chose the name, my mom didn’t…
나도 이 이름 좋아요! I tried to find out about the meaning on the internet. “규리”라는 딸 있는 여자을 인터넷에세 찾았어요. 이 여자가 “규리”의 뜻이 “별”랑 “good’, ‘do (a person) good’, ‘beneficial” (奎利).
Maybe she meant benevolent? Can you help me w/ the meaning, Hyun-Woo? ^^

응, Claudia (클라우디아) 독일에 많이 있는 이름이에요!
Claudia Schiffer 몰라요?

I sort of forgot to end that one sentence but I hope you can understand what I wanted to say

Hi Hyunwoo…

My last name is Kim.
My dad is a “Kim”…from the Soonchun Kim line
My mom is a “Kim”…from the Kimhae Kim line

What does that make me? … do the kids always follow the father’s Kim lineage? ….how does that work if both your parents are Kims?

Are there any other Kims out there from either of these lines?

김 세라

Sarah
Your name can be the Soonchun Kim.
The kids always follow the father’s lineage whether it’s Kim or another family name.

gen
“조안나 제네시스 세라” 라고 써요.
예쁜 이름이네요.