As of the last census around half of South Koreans are still named Kim Lee or Park while the rest of the top 10 family names are made up of.

Most common first name in south korea. Heaven or Sky Areum 아름. S means South Korea.

N means North Korea. Choi Jeong Kang Yoon Jang and Shin. Name Hangul Hanja Meaning Mari.

Soon-Bok - The child is going. All told about 45 percent of Koreans have one of these three names. It can be difficult to differentiate a persons gender from their name in South Korea.

South Korean female names Young-Soon - Mild and flowery. The most common of these names is Kim followed by Lee and Park. Young - The valiant one.

Lee is the second most common name and Park or Pak is the third. Sung - The successor. 54 rows 2015 South Korean population out of 497 million total Percentage Percentile 1 김.

Thats about 10 million people. As of 2015 286 Korean family names were in use. For example in the name NAM GUNG Min NAM GUNG is the surname and Min is the first name.