Mok


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, including:
  • Mò, spelled Mok based on its pronunciation in Cantonese or Teochew.
  • Mù, homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew. 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.
  • Mù, homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew.
  • Mù, homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew.
The Dutch surname Mok is a variant spelling of Mock. The surname Mock might have originated from Moch, a clipping of Mochel.
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.
There is only one hanja used to write the modern Korean surname Mok: Hwamokhal Mok, meaning 'harmonious'. The bearers of this surname are almost all members of the. That clan is so named for its bon-gwan 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, an official under Gojong of Goryeo. Historically, another hanja meaning 'tree' 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.
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.
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.
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 in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and five percent as White.
As of 2023 there is one Mok living in Oslo, Norway.

People

Cambodian surname

  • Mok Mareth, Cambodian politician
  • Theavy Mok, Cambodian plastic surgeon

    Chinese surname

  • Mok Kwai-lan, fourth spouse of Lingnan martial arts grandmaster Wong Fei-hung
  • Mok Chun Wah, Hong Kong footballer
  • Mok Cheuk Wing, Hong Kong judo athlete
  • Mok Ying-fan, Hong Kong politician
  • Ngaiming Mok, Hong Kong mathematician
  • Warren Mok, Macau operatic tenor
  • Max Mok, Hong Kong actor
  • Mok Ka Sha, Hong Kong table tennis player
  • Charles Mok, Hong Kong internet entrepreneur and politician
  • Hoyan Mok, Hong Kong actress who won the 1993 Miss Hong Kong Pageant
  • Karen Mok, Hong Kong actress and pop singer
  • Patricia Mok, Singaporean actress
  • Rosanda Mok, Hong Kong politician
  • Zandra Mok, Hong Kong television reporter and politician
  • Monica Mok, Beijing-born Australian actress
  • Mok Ying Ren, Singaporean triathlete and long-distance runner
  • Mok Hing Ling, Chinese modern ink painter
  • May Mok, Hong Kong sound effects editor
  • Philip Mok, Hong Kong professor of electrical engineering

    Korean surname

  • Mok Jin-seok, South Korean Go player
  • Mok Un-ju, North Korean gymnast
  • Yebin Mok, South Korean-born American figure skater

    Other or unknown

  • Abraham Mok, Dutch gymnast murdered in the Holocaust
  • Jack Mok, South African rower
  • Clement Mok, Canadian graphic designer
  • Ken Mok, American television producer
  • Al Mok, American computer scientist
  • Judith Mok, Dutch soprano