title: Ok (Korean name)
text: # Ok (Korean name)
  
  Ok, sometimes spelled Oak or Ock, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. It is usually written with a hanja meaning "jade".
  
  ## Family name
  
  The 2000 South Korean census found 22,964 people and 7,288 households with the family name Ok. 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
  * Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province: 1,085 people and 345 households
  * Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province: 708 people and 232 households
  * Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province: 537 people and 174 households
  * Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province: 441 people and 145 households
  * Uiseong County, North Gyeongsang Province: 467 people and 138 households
  * Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province: 197 people and 61 households
  * Other or unknown: 161 people and 36 households
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  ## Given name
  
  ### Hanja and meaning
  
  There are five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:
  
  * 玉 (구슬 옥; guseul ok): "jade"
  * 屋 (집 옥; jip ok): "house"
  * 獄 (옥 옥; ok ok: "prison"
  * 沃 (물 댈; mul dael ok): "irrigate"
  * 鈺 (보배 옥; bobae ok): "treasure"
  
  ### People
  
  People with the single-syllable given name Ok include:
  
  * Yeo Ok, poet of the Gojoseon Kingdom which fell in 108 BC
  * Jeon Ok (1911–1969), South Korean actress
  * Kim Ok (born 1964), North Korean government employee, personal secretary to Kim Jong-il
  
  ### As name element
  
  One name containing this element, Kyung-ok, was the 10th-most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1950.
  
  Names containing this element include:
  
  * Jong-ok (unisex)
  * Kyung-ok (feminine)
  * Myung-ok (feminine)
  * Seon-ok (feminine)
  * Sun-ok (feminine)
  * Yeong-ok (unisex)
  