Hwan (name)

Hwan is a rare Korean family name, as well as an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name
As a family name, Hwan is written with only one hanja, the Sino-Korean name of the Sapindus mukorossi tree (굳셀 환 gutsel hwan). The 2000 South Korean census found 157 people with this family name. People with this family name include:


 * Thomas Hwan, South Korean actor based in Denmark

Hanja
There are 21 hanja with the reading "hwan" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:


 * 1) (기쁠 환 gibbeul hwan): "happiness"
 * 2) (근심 환 geunsim hwan): "anxiety"
 * 3) (둥글 환 dung-geul hwan): "round"
 * 4) (바꿀 환 baggul hwan): "to change"
 * 5) (고리 환 gori hwan): "ring"
 * 6) (돌아올 환 doraol hwan): "to return"
 * 7) (부를 환 bureul hwan): "to summon"
 * 8) (빛날 환 bitnal hwan): "to shine"
 * 9) (흩어질 환 heuteojil hwan): "to be scattered"
 * 10) (불꽃 환 bulggot hwan): "blaze"
 * 11) (환할 환 hwanhal hwan): "bright"
 * 12) (헛보일 환 heotboil hwan): "illusion"
 * 13) (굳셀 환 gutsel hwan): Sapindus mukorossi
 * 14) (고리 환 gori hwan): "ring"
 * 15) (기뻐할 환 gibbeohal hwan): "to rejoice"
 * 16) (벼슬 환 byeoseul hwan): "government officials"
 * 17) (흰 비단 환 hoen bidan hwan): "white silk"
 * 18) (환어 환 hwaneo hwan): a kind of fish
 * 19) *(홀아버지 환 heutabeoji hwan): "bachelor"
 * 20) (두를 환 dureul hwan): "to wrap around"
 * 21) (환할 환 hwanhal hwan)
 * 22) (세차게 흐를 환 sechage heureul hwan): "to flow violently"

As name element
One name containing this element, Young-hwan, was the 9th-most popular name for newborn South Korean boys in 1950. Other names containing this element include:


 * Ji-hwan
 * Jin-hwan
 * Joo-hwan
 * Jung-hwan
 * Kwang-hwan
 * Kyung-hwan
 * Myung-hwan
 * Seung-hwan
 * Young-hwan