Korean Surnames
박
朴
How it's spelled in English
- Bak(official)
- Park
- Pak
Usual hanja
朴 — plain, simple
Well-known clans (bongwan)
밀양 박씨 · 반남 박씨
A bongwan is the ancestral home of a clan — two Kims from different bongwan are different families.
Population
- 박(朴) 4,192,074 people, 8.4% of the population
Statistics Korea, 2015 Population and Housing Census
About it
Traced to Bak Hyeokgeose, Silla's legendary founder, said to have hatched from an egg shaped like a gourd (박).