Seong, also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

The family name Seong is written with only one hanja, meaning "succeed" or "accomplish". The 2000 South Korean Census found 167,903 people with this family name, up by six percent from 158,385 in the 1985 census. This increase was far smaller than the fifteen percent growth in the overall South Korean population over the same period. They traced their origins to only a single bon-gwan, Changnyeong County. This was also the place where they formed the highest concentration of the local population, with 2,360 people (3.61%). In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 67.4% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Sung in their passports. The Revised Romanisation spelling Seong was in second place at 29.4%. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Seung, Shung, and the Yale Romanisation spelling Seng.

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In given names

Hanja

, regulations of the Supreme Court of Korea permit the following 24 hanja with the reading Seong, plus six variant forms, to be registered for use in given names. Ten characters from the table of basic hanja for educational use: Fourteen characters from the table of additional hanja for name use:

People

People with the monosyllabic given name Seong include:

As name element

Many names starting with this element have been popular names for newborn baby boys in earlier decades, according to South Korean government data: Other names containing beginning with this element include: Other names ending with this element include: