| Hangul: | 인 |
| Hanja: | Family/given: Given name only |
| Mr: | In |
| Rr: | In |
In is an uncommon Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
As a family name, In may be written with one hanja, meaning "mark" or "seal" (; 도장 인). It has two bon-gwan: Kyodong, which is an island in Incheon and Yonan, North Korea.[1] The 2000 South Korean census found 20,635 people with this family name.[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 86.9% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as In in their passports. Alternative spellings (the remaining 13.1%) included Yin and Ihn.[3]
People with this family name include:
There are 29 hanja with the reading "in" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are listed in the table at right.[4]
People with the single-syllable given name In include:
One name containing this element, In-sook, was the 8th-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1950.[5] Names containing this element include: