Moon (Korean name)
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.
Family name
As a family name, Moon is written with one hanja, meaning "writing" (文; 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):
Nampyeong (Naju): 380,530 people and 118,491 households
Gangneung: 4,646 people and 1,493 households. They claim common ancestry with the Nampyeong Moon clan through Mun Jang-pil (문장필; 文章弼), a Goryeo Dynasty military figure.
Gamcheon: 4,382 people and 1,367 households
Papyeong (Paju): 2,687 people and 743 households
Gyeongju: 2,609 people and 844 households
Naju: 2,537 people and 765 households
Hampyeong: 2,194 people and 612 households
40 other bon-gwan with fewer than 2,000 people each: 27,342 people and 8,496 households
