Yang (Korean surname)
Korean family name (양)
Yang (Korean: 양) is a Korean surname. According to the 2000 South Korean Census, 486,645 people in South Korea had the surname Yang.
Overview
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.
Hanja meaning "bridge" (梁 or 樑)
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. They identified with 32 different bon-gwan (hometown of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of clan members):
Namwon, North Jeolla: 218,546 people in 67,691 households. They claim descent from Yang U-ryang (梁友諒), a descendant of the Jeju Yang clan's ancestor Yang Eul-na who came to Namwon during the reign of Gyeongdeok of Silla.
Jeju: 133,355 people in 41,169 households.
“Yang (Korean surname)” enters the record as korean family name (양). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yang, Korean and surname can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17041598. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.
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