Ok (Korean name)

The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people and 7,288 households with the family name Ok.[1] The surviving bon-gwan (origin of a clan lineage, not necessarily the actual residence of the clan members) at that time included:

• Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province: 19,368 people and 6,157 households[1]
• Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province: 1,085 people and 345 households[1]
• Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province: 708 people and 232 households[1]
• Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province: 537 people and 174 households[1]
• Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province: 441 people and 145 households[1]
• Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang Province: 467 people and 138 households[1]
• Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province: 197 people and 61 households[1]
• Other or unknown: 161 people and 36 households[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 84.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Ok in their passports, while another 9.0% spelled it as Ock. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 6.2%) included Oak and Ohk.[2]

People with this family name include:

• Ok Kwan-bin (died 1933), Korean independence activist
• Simon Ok Hyun-jin (born 1968), South Korean Roman Catholic priest, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Gwangju
• Ock Joo-hyun (born 1980), South Korean singer, former member of Fin.K.L
• Ok Taec-yeon (born 1988), South Korean singer, member of boyband 2PM
• Justine Ok, 21st-century American artist and songwriter of Korean descent

• List of Korean family names
• List of Korean given names