Jung-nam, also spelled Jeong-nam or Jong-nam, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Hanja and meaning

There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" and five hanja with the reading "nam" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.^[1] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 正男 (바를 정; bareul nam; 사내 남; sanae nam), meaning "righteous man". The same characters are also used to write the Japanese masculine given name Masao.^[2]

According to South Korean government data, Jung-nam was the eighth-most popular name for newborn boys in 1945.^[3]

People

People with this name include:

Entertainers

• Bae Jung-nam [ko] (born 1983), South Korean model and TV personality

Sportspeople

• Baek Jeong-nam (1936–2005), South Korean basketball player
• Kim Jung-nam (born 1943), South Korean football manager
• Kim Jeong-nam (rower) (born 1963), South Korean rower
• Go Jung-nam (born 1975), South Korean fencer
• Yoo Jung-nam (born 1983), South Korean swimmer
• Hong Jeong-nam (born 1988), South Korean footballer

Other

• Son Jong-nam (1958–2008), North Korean defector and Christian missionary
• Jang Jong-nam (born 1960s), North Korean general
• Kim Jong-nam (1971–2017), eldest son of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
• Mun Jong-nam, North Korean diplomat