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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" (; 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〔 In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moon (Korean name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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