Korean Surnames
배
裵
How it's spelled in English
- Bae(official)
- Pae
Usual hanja
裵 — a long, trailing robe
Well-known clans (bongwan)
성주 배씨 · 분성 배씨
A bongwan is the ancestral home of a clan — two Kims from different bongwan are different families.
Population
- 배(裵) 400,641 people, 0.8% of the population
Statistics Korea, 2015 Population and Housing Census
About it
Some families write 裴, a variant form of the same character.