Eom
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of end of message
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɪəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 605K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea1 in 358as 엄
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 6K
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 Eom 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)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
144,660 named 엄, 2015
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 엄 in KR South Korea, AU Australia.
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)
Initialism of end of message.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eom 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 | #43 | 144,660as 엄 | 1 in 358 | 145K | 엄 | 109 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 4 | — | 5 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Eom | 6 |
| US United States | — | 550 | 1 in 605K | 646 | Eom | 132 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | 엄 | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Eom | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Eom | 3 |
144,660 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eom is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, first-person singular present indicative of wesan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Um Hong-Gilb. 1960KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean mountain climber
- Um Hyo-supb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Uhm Jung-hwab. 1969KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Um Sang-hyunb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Um Ki-joonb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Uhm Ji-wonb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Um Tae-hwab. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter
- Um Tae-goob. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Yoo Ah-inb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1986)
- Om Yun-cholb. 1991KPnot in their usual nameweightlifter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 646 | #37,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 550 | #39,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 168 | #99,725 |
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #38 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Eom mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of end of message. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Eom?
- In the etymology graph, Bof is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Eom?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪəm/ (IPA) for Korean.
- In which country does Eom have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 145 thousand people named 엄, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Eom?
- In the United States, the national register counted 550 people named Eom in 2010, about 1 in 605 thousand residents.
- How common is Eom compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Eom is the 43rd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eom?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eomThe 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, “Eom” — the 43rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.