배
surname · Korean · Hangul script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
배 is a surname, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Korean and , written in the Hangul script. Recorded meaning: abdomen, belly (of a human or animal).
- KRSouth Korea1 in 129◐
- USUnited States1 in 54K
- MOMacao1 in 752
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈408K ●
- #935 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 247 ●
- 1 in 129 ◐
across 14 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
247K records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bae in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 6 more.
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●
abdomen, belly (of a human or animal)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 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 | #36 | 400,669 | 224K rec. | 1 in 129 | 401K | 배 | 175 |
| US United States | — | 6,203 | 19K rec. | 1 in 54K | 6.8K | Bae | 247 |
| CA Canada | — | 734 | 799 rec. | — | — | Bae | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 559 | 626 rec. | — | — | Bae | 40 |
| NO Norway | — | 338△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 16K | 338 | — | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 182 | 127 rec. | — | — | Bae | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 156 | — | 1 in 1.4M | 156 | — | — |
| CN China | — | 126 | 18 rec. | — | — | Bae | 22 |
| SG Singapore | — | 116 | 111 rec. | — | — | Bae | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 113 | 207 rec. | — | — | Bae | 11 |
| MO Macao | #66 | 110 | 232 rec. | — | — | 배 | 2 |
| IN India | — | 103 | 30 rec. | — | — | Bae | 18 |
Roughly 401K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 129). 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.
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Languages●
- Korean1.2M100%
- 51%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 1,228,299 | 100% |
| 5 | 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 · 212 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name 배?
- We estimate roughly 408 thousand people bear 배 (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does 배 have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 401 thousand people bear 배 in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 배.
- Where is 배 most common?
- 배 is densest in South Korea, where the national register counts about 1 in 129 people carrying it.
- How common is 배 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 배 is the 36th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name 배 mean?
- Recorded meaning: abdomen, belly (of a human or animal)
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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, “배” — the 36th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.