The public reference separates official usage statistics, legal-character evidence, dictionary context and historical surname data instead of blending them into one confidence label.
The Court family-registration reference is the authority link for Hanja usable in personal names. A structured mirror is used for machine-readable synchronization; legal verification should still be made against the Court system.
Open source ↗The family-registration statistics service publishes ranked/top registered given-name data by date, gender and geographic filters. National Top-20 slices remain the primary popularity series; separately stored regional Top-20 slices are used only to discover and attest additional names and are never presented as nationwide totals.
Open source ↗Unicode Unihan supplies character-level dictionary glosses and reference properties such as stroke counts. It enriches Court-legal Hanja records but does not determine whether a character or reading is legally usable in a Korean personal name.
Open source ↗The Court’s 2024 notice documents the expansion of the personal-name Hanja inventory and provides institutional context for the current character set.
Open source ↗Statistics Korea’s 2015 census surname and bon-gwan material is treated as dated historical census evidence. It is not rewritten as a current 2026 population estimate.
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