Mok
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Mok is a surname in various cultures. It may be a transcription of several Chinese surnames in their Cantonese or Teochew pronunciations, a Dutch surname, a Hungarian surname, or a Korean surname.
Origins
Mok may transcribe the pronunciation, in different varieties of Chinese, of some Chinese surnames spelled as Mo or Mu in Pinyin (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation), including:
- Mò (Template:Wikt-lang), spelled Mok based on its pronunciation in Cantonese (Template:Lang-zh; IPA: Template:Ipa) or Teochew (Peng'im: Script error: No such module "Lang".; IPA: Template:Ipa).[1][2]
- Mù (Template:Wikt-lang), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew.[3] According to Patrick Hanks, some Cantonese speakers in the United Kingdom and the United States also spell this name as Mok, though Muk is probably a more common transcription of the Cantonese pronunciation (Template:Lang-zh; IPA: Template:Ipa).[1][4]
- Mù (Template:Wikt-lang), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew.[5]
- Mù (Template:Wikt-lang), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew.[6]
The Dutch surname Mok is a variant spelling of Mock.[1] The surname Mock might have originated from Moch, a clipping of Mochel (mohel).[7]
The Hungarian surname Mók was originally a given name. That given name might be a hypocorism of Mózes, which is the Hungarian form of the given names Moises or Moses.[1]
There is only one hanja used to write the modern Korean surname Mok: Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Wikt-lang; Script error: No such module "Lang".), meaning 'harmonious'. The bearers of this surname are almost all members of the Template:Ill. That clan is so named for its bon-gwan (clan hometown) of Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, a city which became part of South Korea after the division of the Korean peninsula. Its members claim descent from Template:Ill, an official under Gojong of Goryeo.[8][9] Historically, another hanja meaning 'tree' (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "lang".Template:Category handler) had also been used as a surname by the Mok clan of Baekje, but this surname is no longer extant in the Korean peninsula.
Statistics
In the Netherlands, there were 421 people with the surname Mok as of 2007, up from 112 in 1947.[10]
The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,191 people in 2,493 households with the surname Mok; all but ten of those people stated that they were members of the Sacheon Mok clan.[11]
According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 450 people on the island of Great Britain and nine on the island of Ireland with the surname Mok as of 2011; no bearers of the surname were recorded in Great Britain in 1881.[4]
The 2010 United States Census found 2,707 people with the surname Mok, making it the 11,597th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 2,134 (13,137th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and five percent as White.[12]
As of 2023 there is one Mok living in Oslo, Norway.
People
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- Mok Mareth (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1948), Cambodian politician
- Theavy Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1963), Cambodian plastic surgeon
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- Mok Kwai-lan (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 1892–1982), fourth spouse of Lingnan martial arts grandmaster Wong Fei-hung
- Mok Chun Wah (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1929), Hong Kong footballer
- Mok Cheuk Wing (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1949), Hong Kong judo athlete
- Mok Ying-fan (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1951), Hong Kong politician
- Ngaiming Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1956), Hong Kong mathematician
- Warren Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1958), Macau operatic tenor
- Max Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1960), Hong Kong actor
- Mok Ka Sha (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1962), Hong Kong table tennis player
- Charles Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1964), Hong Kong internet entrepreneur and politician
- Hoyan Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1969), Hong Kong actress who won the 1993 Miss Hong Kong Pageant
- Karen Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1970), Hong Kong actress and pop singer
- Patricia Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1971), Singaporean actress
- Rosanda Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1972), Hong Kong politician
- Zandra Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1973), Hong Kong television reporter and politician
- Monica Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1983), Beijing-born Australian actress
- Mok Ying Ren (Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 1988), Singaporean triathlete and long-distance runner
- Mok Hing Ling (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Chinese modern ink painter
- May Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Hong Kong sound effects editor
- Philip Mok (Script error: No such module "Lang".), Hong Kong professor of electrical engineering
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- Mok Jin-seok (Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler; born 1980), South Korean Go player
- Mok Un-ju (born 1981), North Korean gymnast
- Yebin Mok (born 1984), South Korean-born American figure skater
Other or unknown
- Abraham Mok (1888–1944), Dutch gymnast murdered in the Holocaust
- Jack Mok (born 1935), South African rower
- Clement Mok (born 1958), Canadian graphic designer
- Ken Mok (born 1961), American television producer
- Al Mok, American computer scientist
- Judith Mok, Dutch soprano
References
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External links
- Mok on the "Genealogy" section of DutchJewry.org