Sagong
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Sikong
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Sagong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 13Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 12Kas 사공
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.7Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sagong itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7M (inferred from the name graph)
4,488 named 사공, 2015
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Sikong.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sagong counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #651 | 4,488as 사공 | 1 in 12K | 4.5K | Sagong | 27 |
| US United States | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Sagong | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Sagong | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Sagong | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Sagong | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Sagong | 4 |
4,488 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015, counting the spelling 사공. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Il Sakongb. 1940KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean economist
- Jeongkyu Sakongb. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean physician and politician
- Hye-Young SagongKRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1823-4991
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sagong mean, and where does it come from?
- Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Sikong. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- In which country does Sagong have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named 사공, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sagong?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 4,488 people named 사공 in 2015, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Sagong compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sagong is the 651st most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sagongThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sagong” — the 651st most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.