Korean surname · 2015 census
천 Cheon
This page reports historical census evidence for the surname. Romanization is a navigation aid and may differ from an individual family’s preferred Latin spelling.
Date and evidence boundary
The population figure is from the 2015 Population and Housing Census. This page does not estimate the surname’s present-day population, and it does not infer a person’s ancestry from a surname alone.
Bon-gwan
Browse bon-gwan →Cheon clan groups in the census corpus
Bon-gwan counts are historical census rows tied to this surname/Hanja combination. Only groups meeting the current public threshold are linked here.
영양 Cheon clan100,014 people · 82.13% of this surname count화산 Cheon clan5,843 people · 4.8% of this surname count여양 Cheon clan1,536 people · 1.26% of this surname count예양 Cheon clan1,038 people · 0.85% of this surname count경주 Cheon clan784 people · 0.64% of this surname count언양 Cheon clan776 people · 0.64% of this surname count밀양 Cheon clan726 people · 0.6% of this surname count연양 Cheon clan710 people · 0.58% of this surname count안동 Cheon clan696 people · 0.57% of this surname count