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This page lists people with the surname Yang. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
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| Yang | |
| Hangul | 양 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Yang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yang |
Yang (Korean: 양) is a Korean surname. According to the 2000 South Korean Census, 486,645 people in South Korea had the surname Yang.
The family name Yang can be written with four different hanja, indicating different lineages. The 2000 South Korean Census found a total of 486,645 people in 151,315 households with these family names.[1]
Deulbo Yang (들보 양, 梁), meaning "bridge", is by far the most common of the four surname hanja read Yang, used by 389,152 people in 120,534 households. This made it the 25th-most common surname among the 288 surnames distinguished by the 2000 Census. Additionally, another 3,254 people in 960 households used the variant form (樑, with a "tree" radical added on the left); that variant alone was the 144th-most common surname.[1] They identified with 32 different bon-gwan (hometown of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of clan members):
Beodeul Yang (버들 양, 楊), meaning "willow", is the second-most common of the four surname hanja read Yang, used by 93,416 people in 29,558 households. This made it the 55th-most common surname in the 2000 Census.[1]
Doul Yang (도울 양, 襄), meaning "assist", is the least common of the four surname hanja read Yang, used by 823 people in 263 households. This made it the 182nd-most common surname in the 2000 Census. The census did not report the bon-gwan for this surname.[1]