In (Korean name)


In is an uncommon Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

As a family name, In may be written with one hanja, meaning "mark" or "seal". It has two bon-gwan: Kyodong, which is an island in Incheon and Yonan, North Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 20,635 people with this family name. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 86.9% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as In in their passports. Alternative spellings included Yin.
People with this family name include:
There are 29 hanja with the reading "in" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are listed in the table at right.
People with the single-syllable given name In include:
One name containing this element, In-sook, was the 8th-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1950. Names containing this element include:
;First syllable
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