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{{For-text|the Minnan Chinese surname written {{lang|zh|italic=no|常}}|Chang (surname), its spelling in Mandarin Pinyin|the Korean surname spelled Sŭng in the McCune–Reischauer romanisation system|Seung (Korean name), its spelling in Revised Romanization|the Korean given name|Seong (Korean given name)}}

{{Infobox Korean name

| hangul = 성

| hanja = {{linktext|成}}: "succeed"

| mr = Sŏng

| rr = Seong

}}

Seong ({{Korean|hangul=성}}), also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name.

Overview

The family name Seong is written with only one hanja character, meaning "succeed" or "accomplish" ({{linktext|成}}). 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.{{cite web|url=http://sgis.nso.go.kr/pyramid/view_familyname_dmc_table.asp|title=성씨인구분포데이터|trans-title=Family name population and distribution data|publisher=National Statistics Office|location=South Korea|accessdate=2013-05-28|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101034812/http://sgis.nso.go.kr/pyramid/view_familyname_dmc_table.asp|archivedate=2013-11-01}} They traced their origins to only a single bon-gwan, Changnyeong County.{{cite web|url=http://gojun.knu.ac.kr/search_read.html?orderbystr=parents%20desc,pos&id=3524&searchstr=%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%84%B1%EC%94%A8%EC%9D%BC%EB%9E%8C&qu=title&page=1&list_no=1|title=한국성씨일람|trans-title=List of Korean family names|publisher=Kyungpook National University|date=2003-12-11|accessdate=2013-10-30}} 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.{{cite book|url=http://korean.go.kr/front/etcData/etcDataView.do?etc_seq=179&mn_id=46|script-title=ko:성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회|trans-title=Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion|publisher=National Institute of the Korean Language|date=25 June 2009|accessdate=22 October 2015|page=59}}

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Category:Korean-language surnames