Tae (Korean surname) explained
| Hangul: | 태 |
| Hanja: | "great"
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| Mr: | T'ae |
| Rr: | Tae |
Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a rare Korean family name. It is written with a hanja character meaning "great".
Clans
As a rare Korean family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great" .[1] They are a noble clan directly descended from the royal family of the Balhae dynasty. The clan ancestor is Dae Jung-sang, the father of the founder of Balhae, Dae Jo-young. The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae.[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 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae.[3] People with this surname trace their origins to several bon-gwan, including Namwon and Yeongsun in what is now South Korea and Hyopgye in what is now North Korea.
Notable people
People with this family name include:
- T'ae Kŭm-ch'wi (fl. 1253–1260), Goryeo military commander, founder of the Yeongsun Tae clan
- Tae Wan-son (born 1915 -1988), South Korean politician and businessman who served as minister of Construction Department.
- Thae Byong-ryol (1916 - 1986), North Korean general
- Thae Jong-su (born 1936), North Korean politician
- Tae Hyun-sil (born 1941), South Korean actress
- Thae Hyong-chol (born 1953), North Korean politician
- Thae Yong-ho (born 1962), North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016
- Tae Hang-ho (born 1983), South Korean actor
- Tae Yoon (born 1992), South Korean football player in India
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 한국성씨일람. List of Korean family names. Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. 2013-10-30.
- Web site: 성씨인구분포데이터. Family name population and distribution data. National Statistics Office. South Korea. 2013-05-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131101034812/http://sgis.nso.go.kr/pyramid/view_familyname_dmc_table.asp. 2013-11-01.
- Book: http://korean.go.kr/front/etcData/etcDataView.do?etc_seq=179&mn_id=46. ko:성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회. Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. 22 October 2015. 61.
