Bae | |
Hangul | 배 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bae |
McCune–Reischauer | Pae |
Bae, also spelled Bai or Pae, is a Korean family name. The South Korean census of 2015 found 400,641 people by this surname, or less than 1% of the population. [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 96.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Bae. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Bai, Pae, and Bea. [2]
There are two different ways to write the name in hanja: the most common ( 裵), and an alternative ( 裴) which lacks the "stem" ( 亠, Radical 8) at the top. The most common character is also used to write the Chinese surname Pei, which is also the origin of the Vietnamese surname Bùi.
Bae | |
Hangul | 배 |
---|---|
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bae |
McCune–Reischauer | Pae |
Bae, also spelled Bai or Pae, is a Korean family name. The South Korean census of 2015 found 400,641 people by this surname, or less than 1% of the population. [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 96.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Bae. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Bai, Pae, and Bea. [2]
There are two different ways to write the name in hanja: the most common ( 裵), and an alternative ( 裴) which lacks the "stem" ( 亠, Radical 8) at the top. The most common character is also used to write the Chinese surname Pei, which is also the origin of the Vietnamese surname Bùi.