Korean surnames have been used since the Three Kingdoms period. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Koguryo once had the name "Gao" of Koguryo, and Baekje had the name "Fuyu" of the ancestor of Fuyu. Silla used three royal surnames of Park, Shi and Jin and six surnames of Li, Cui, Zheng and Liu in the early days. Legend has it that the first king of Kaya was born in Golden Egg, so he took the surname of Golden.
There are two forms of surnames in Korea. There are single surnames such as Jin, Li and Park, as well as compound surnames such as Nangong, Xianyu and Dugu. According to the statistics in 2000, the most common surname in Korea is Kim, accounting for 2 1.6% of the Korean population, about 9.92 million people, and the second population in Korea is Lee, accounting for 14.8%, about 6.79 million people. The third place is "Park's", accounting for 8.5%, about 3.89 million people. Besides Kim, Lee and Park, the top 20 surnames in Korea are Cui, Zheng, Jiang, Zhao, Yin, Zhang, Lin, Wu, Han, Shen, Xu, Quan, Huang, An, Song, Liu and Hong. In addition, there are Quan, Gao, Wen, Bai, Xu, Nan and Zhu, as well as Sun, Liang, Cao, Shen, Liu, Ding, Guo, Zhou, Ren, Chen, Yang and Kong. These surnames are the same as those of China.