Seok
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seok is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 901K
- KRSouth Korea1 in 855as 석
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 Seok itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
60,607 named 석, 2015
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 석 in KR South Korea and Seog in NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seok 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 | #54 | 60,607as 석 | 1 in 855 | 61K | 석 | 176 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | — | 18 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Seok | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Seok | 35 |
| US United States | — | 369 | 1 in 901K | 403 | Seok | 181 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Seok | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Seog | 2 |
60,607 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Baek Seokb. 1912KPNorth Korean poet
- Suh Se-okb. 1929KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean artist (1929–2020)
- Namgoong Suekb. 1938KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Hwang Se Okb. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Mi Sokb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Seok Woo LeeKRresearcher
- Seok Jeong LeeKRresearcher
- Seok Ki ChoiUSresearcher
- Seok Jun MoonUSresearcher
- Seok Kimresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3206-8061)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 403 | #55,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 369 | #55,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 359 | #23,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 68 | #23,091 |
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #517 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Seok?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛʊk/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Seok a male or female name?
- Seok is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Seok?
- In the etymology graph, Suk is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Seok have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named 석, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Seok?
- In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Seok in 2010, about 1 in 901 thousand residents.
- How common is Seok compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Seok is the 54th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Seok?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seokThe 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, “Seok” — the 54th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.