Ju (Korean surname)


Ju, also spelled Joo or Chu, is a Korean family name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Overview

As a family name, Ju may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "red", and the other meaning "around". The former has one bon-gwan, while the latter has four. The 2000 South Korean census found 215,010 people with this family name.
In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 50.6% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ju in their passports, and another 46.9% spelled it as Joo. Rarer alternative spellings included Chu and Choo.
People with these family names include:

Chu

Joo

Ju