Kim A popular name among several Olympic gold medal winners Lee.

Most popular male names in south korea. Seok means like a rock Seung means successor or winning Shik means planting So Seok. Other popular Korean last names are Lee or Li or Park and sometimes you might even see Choi Jeong Kang Yoon Jang and Shin. These are the TOP 30 K-Pop Idols in Korea right now based on brand ranking led by none other than BTSs Jimin and Kang Daniel.

Traditional Korean names are written in Hanja or the Hangul alphabet but these are the common translations of those names. In South Korea alone there are around 10 million people with the last name Kim. 191 行 The most common Korean family name particularly in South Korea is Kim followed by Lee.

Most Popular Names for Boys in South Korea. Boy Names Popular in Korea Data from Korea is hard to come by but these are reported as the top names for boys in Korea from 2015 and from 2017.

MALE NAMES USING HANJA in alphabetical order. Yesung A singer songwriter actor and radio personality. Park Park Jae-sang better known as Psy the singerrapper.

These are the most popular boys names in South Korea for 2015. There are no more than 250 Korean last names.

Byungchul - 병철 Daehyun - 대현 Dohyun - 도현 Donghae - 동해 Donghyun - 동현 Dongwon - 동원 Doyoon - 도윤 Gunwoo - 건우 Gyungho - 경호 Hajoon - 하준 Hyunjoon - 현준. This unique Korean name for boys is also spelt as Chun-sun or Cheol-sun.