Nam is a
Korean family name meaning "
south". The 2000
South Korean census found 257,178 people with this family name, of whom 150,394 belonged to the
Uiryeong Nam bon-gwan. According to the same census, the place with the highest frequency of people belonging to that bon-gwan was
Eumseong County,
North Chungcheong Province, where it accounted for 1,021 people, or 1.21% of the population; this represented a significant drop both in numbers and in proportion from the 1985 census, when it accounted for 1,427 people, or 1.71% of the population.[1]
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