Moon (Korean name)

Moon
Hangul	문
Hanja	Family/given: Given name only:
Revised Romanization	Mun
McCune–Reischauer	Mun

Family/given:

Given name only:

Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

As a family name, Moon is written with one hanja, meaning "writing" (; 글월 문 geulwon mun). The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 426,927 people and 132,881 households with this family name. They identified with 47 different surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members):

In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun.

There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:

People with the single-syllable given name Moon include:

Korean names containing the element Moon include:

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