Ban, also spelled Bahn or Pan, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write it.
Ban | |
Hangul | 반 |
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Hanja | Family name Given name |
Revised Romanization | Ban |
McCune–Reischauer | Pan |
The family name Ban is written with either of two hanja, indicating different lineages. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 26,171 people and 8,143 households with these family names.[1] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 93.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Ban in their passports, while 4% spelled it Van. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.2%) included Bahn.[2]
Nanul Ban (나눌 반; 班; lit. "group") is the less common of the two Ban family names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name pronounced Bān in Mandarin. None of the surviving records clarify when the family name was adopted in Korea or whether the various clans using this character as their surname have a common ancestor.[3] The 2000 South Korean census found 2,955 people with this family name, and 919 households.[1] The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) at that time included:
Tteumul Ban (뜨물 반; 潘; lit. "leftover water from washing rice") is the more common of the two Ban family names. This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name pronounced Pān in Mandarin. The 2000 South Korean census found 23,216 people with this family name, and 7,224 households.[1] The surviving bon-gwan at that time included:
People with this family name include:
Fictional characters with this family name include:
There are 27 hanja with the reading "ban" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[8][9]
Korean given names containing the element Ban include: