박
surname · Korean · Hangul script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
박 is a surname, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Korean and , written in the Hangul script. Recorded meaning: gourd, calabash.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 12◐
- KPNorth Korea1 in 110
- MOMacao1 in 112
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.3M ●
- #53 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 468 ●
- 1 in 12 ◐
across 11 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
4.1M records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Park in US United States, IN India, AU Australia and 9 more, Пак in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Pak in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, MY Malaysia and 2 more and Паук in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
gourd, calabash
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #3 | 4,192,080 | 2.6M rec. | 1 in 12 | 4.3M | 박 | 298 |
| AU Australia | #666 | 508,355 | 68K rec. | — | 67 | Park | 196 |
| CA Canada | — | 202,514 | 32K rec. | — | — | Park | 171 |
| RU Russia | #706 | 156,494 | 59K rec. | — | #5,240 | Пак | 150 |
| US United States | — | 106,696 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 111K | Park | 468 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 35,799 | 70K rec. | — | 7 | Park | 178 |
| UA Ukraine | #996 | 33,827 | 34K rec. | — | — | Паук | 33 |
| HK Hong Kong | #463 | 25,068 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Park | 68 |
| PL Poland | — | 17,954△ | 451 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 18K | Puk | 62 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #231 | 7,759 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Пак | 15 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #263 | 6,341 | 265 rec. | — | — | Пак | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,201△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | 2 |
Roughly 4.2M people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 12). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Korean9.7M100%
- 621%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 9,705,591 | 100% |
| 62 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 491 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name 박?
- We estimate roughly 4.3 million people bear 박 (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does 박 have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.2 million people bear 박 in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 박.
- Where is 박 most common?
- 박 is densest in South Korea, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 people carrying it.
- How common is 박 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 박 is the 3rd most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name 박 mean?
- Recorded meaning: gourd, calabash
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “박” — the 3rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.