Frequency: (746)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Korean: variant of So.
2. Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘younger sister’ and ‘tail’. This name is not common in Japan.
GIVEN NAMES: Korean 65%; Japanese 7%. Young (17), Jung (8), Dong (7), Myung (5), Sang (5), Kwang (4), Kyung (4), Young Soo (4), Hyun (3), Soon (3), Sung (3), Yong (3); Jeong (5), Byung (4), Chang (3), Jung Ho (3), Chul (2), Jung Soo (2), Jung Woo (2), Kyong Hee (2), Seong (2), Seoung (2), Yeon (2), Chang Hyun; Akio (2), Sumio (2), Toru (2), Kaoru, Kazuo, Kenji, Kenzo, Masaya, Miho, Osamu, Saichi, Tadao.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
