Na (Korean surname)

Na
Pronunciation[na]
Language(s)Korean
Origin
Meaninggauze, net, catch
Region of originKorea
Other names
Variant form(s)羅, 蘿, 邏, 那
Na
Hangul
나
Hanja
Revised RomanizationNa
McCune–ReischauerNa

Na or Ra is a relatively uncommon Korean family name. The name is written as 나 (Na) in South Korea, and as 라 (Ra) in North Korea. As of 2015, an estimated 160,946 people[1] (0.32% of the population of South Korea) had the surname Na or Ra.[2]

  1. ^ Excluding the North Korea population. Sources that guess at the North Korean population give around 161,015 people.
  2. ^ "2015년 인구주택총조사 전수집계결과 보도자료" [Results of the 2015 Census of Population and Housing survey]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 28 May 2019. provided by the ROK National Statistical Office. The total population was 49,705,663 for the statistical sample, which does not include any data from North Korea.