- Source: Hyun (Korean name)
Hyun, also spelled Hyeon or Hyon, Hyoun, is a Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 42 hanja with the reading "hyun" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
As a surname
= Overview
=The family name Hyun is written with only one hanja (玄; 검을 현 geomeul hyeon) meaning "dark" or "mysterious". The 2000 South Korean Census found 81,807 people and 25,547 households with this family name. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 80.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Hyun in their passports. Another 14.9% spelled it as Hyeon, and 2.2% as Hyoun. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 2.4%) included Heon and Hyean.
= Clans
=The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) as of 2000 included:
Yeonju (Nyongbyon County), North Pyongan Province: 59,096 people and 18,686 households. Yeonju is an old name of Nyongbyon County, and is located in territory which became part of North Korea after the division of Korea. The clan members claim descent from Hyeon Dam-yun (현담윤; 玄覃胤), who held the position of munha sirang pyeongjangsa (문하시랑평장사; 門下侍郞平章事) in the Secretariat-Chancellery under Myeongjong of Goryeo (r. 1170–1197).
Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province: 4,938 people and 1,438 households. They are a branch of the Yeonju clan, claiming descent from Hyeon Dam-yun via Hyeon Gyu (현규; 玄珪), who held the position of gunsu (군수; 郡守) for Gobu County (고부군; 古阜郡), Jeolla Province (today Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province) under Sejong of Joseon (r. 1418–1450).
Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province: 3,534 people and 1,099 households. They claim descent from Hyeon Myeong (현명, 玄命), an official under Injo of Joseon (r. 1623–1649).
Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province: 1,724 people and 531 households.
Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province: 1,261 people and 376 households. They are a branch of the Yeonju clan, claiming descent from Hyeon Dam-yun via his son Hyeon Deok-yu (현덕유; 玄德裕), who was also an official under Myeongjong of Goryeo.
Other bon-gwan: 12,343 people and 3,387 households.
Unknown bon-gwan: 172 people and 30 households.
= People
=People with the surname Hyun include:
As a given name
= As name element
=Many names containing this syllable have been popular for newborn children in South Korea, for newborn girls in the 1950s through the 1990s, and for newborn boys from the 1980s up through the 2010s:
Other given names containing this element include:
= People
=People with the single-syllable given name Hyun include:
Entertainers
Joo Hyun (born Joo Il-choon, 1943), South Korean actor
Woo Hyun (born 1964), South Korean actor
Lee Hyun (born 1983), South Korean singer
Footballers
Cho Hyun (born 1974), South Korean midfielder (K-League)
Choi Hyun (born 1978), South Korean goalkeeper (K-League)
Yoo Hyun (born 1984), South Korean goalkeeper (K-League)
Park Hyun (born 1988), South Korean midfielder (K-League Challenge)
Kim Hyun (footballer) (born 1993), South Korean striker (K-League 2)
Other
Choe Hyon (1907–1982), North Korean general and politician
Yoon Hyun (born 1966), South Korean judo practitioner
Joh Hyun (born 1969), South Korean novelist
Jung Hyun (born 1994), South Korean baseball player
Chung Hyeon (born 1996), South Korean tennis player
Na Hyun, South Korean screenwriter and director
= Fictional characters
=Guido-Hyun, a protagonist from The Haunted House animated series
See also
List of Korean family names
List of Korean given names
References
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