Jeon Surname
Approximately 178,193 people bear this surname
Jeon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Korea | 165,783 | 1:152 | 31 |
| United States | 3,917 | 1:92,535 | 10,396 |
| South Korea | 3,420 | 1:14,983 | 119 |
| Thailand | 1,281 | 1:55,143 | 6,661 |
| Canada | 666 | 1:55,324 | 6,557 |
| Singapore | 535 | 1:10,295 | 532 |
| Bangladesh | 451 | 1:353,341 | 9,758 |
| Australia | 342 | 1:78,935 | 9,205 |
| Saudi Arabia | 318 | 1:97,031 | 14,320 |
| Japan | 211 | 1:605,897 | 15,932 |
| Hong Kong | 183 | 1:40,085 | 710 |
| United Arab Emirates | 164 | 1:55,868 | 5,445 |
| Brazil | 115 | 1:1,861,516 | 59,915 |
| New Zealand | 110 | 1:41,167 | 6,893 |
| England | 96 | 1:580,396 | 35,131 |
| Malaysia | 71 | 1:415,412 | 21,545 |
| China | 67 | 1:20,407,785 | 1,130 |
| Germany | 40 | 1:2,012,636 | 110,053 |
| Indonesia | 36 | 1:3,673,589 | 193,360 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| Spain | 28 | 1:1,669,716 | 48,608 |
| Philippines | 28 | 1:3,615,651 | 151,287 |
| Netherlands | 23 | 1:734,225 | 57,169 |
| Qatar | 22 | 1:107,182 | 11,536 |
| Taiwan | 20 | 1:1,172,237 | 8,044 |
| Vietnam | 18 | 1:5,147,003 | 2,420 |
| Kazakhstan | 16 | 1:1,105,156 | 63,055 |
| Chile | 15 | 1:1,174,432 | 21,998 |
| Russia | 14 | 1:10,294,504 | 334,277 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Guam | 12 | 1:13,343 | 2,098 |
| Argentina | 11 | 1:3,885,765 | 145,016 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Paraguay | 10 | 1:723,675 | 8,089 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Ecuador | 8 | 1:1,988,231 | 21,385 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Scotland | 6 | 1:892,303 | 28,047 |
| Italy | 6 | 1:10,192,781 | 121,657 |
| Panama | 5 | 1:782,452 | 11,059 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Ukraine | 4 | 1:11,380,674 | 331,818 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 1:5,162,382 | 10,688 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1:681,988 | 17,017 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Jeon (1,248) may also be a first name.
Jeon Demographics
Jeon Political Affiliation
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Jeon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jeon Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Jeon (Oriya: େଯଓନ) is held by more people in North Korea than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Jeon? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,161st most commonly occurring family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 40,897 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 97 percent of Jeon live; 95 percent live in East Asia and 95 percent live in Koreanic Asia. It is also the 223,560th most frequently held first name globally It is held by 1,248 people.
This surname is most frequently used in North Korea, where it is held by 165,783 people, or 1 in 152. Apart from North Korea this surname is found in 83 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent live and South Korea, where 2 percent live.
Jeon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Jeon has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 78,340 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Jeon Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Jeon surname are 9.97% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 63.2% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Jeon earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 34.05% more than the national average, earning 463,923 kr per year; in Peru they earn 8.47% less than the national average, earning S/. 17,744 per year; in South Africa they earn 96.81% more than the national average, earning R 467,700 per year; in United States they earn 18.38% more than the national average, earning $51,078 USD per year and in Canada they earn 29.99% more than the national average, earning $64,585 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jeon Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jeon in the Oriya language | ||
| େଯଓନ | eya'ona | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Jeon
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