Yeon (ì°), or less commonly Youn or Yà Ân, is a Korean surname. The name may correspond to the Chinese surnames Yan (çÂÂ, 延) or Lian (é£). The hanja 延 is much more common than ç and é£. Yeon may also refer to the extinct surname (æ·µ).
ç (ì Âë¹ ì° jebi yeon) was the surname of the Yeon clan, one of the Great Eight Families of Baekje. This surname is extremely rare in the present-day with a few clans such as the Jeonju Yeon clan and the Jeongpyeong Yeon clan. The character literally means barn swallow. According to the 2015 census, 20 people had this surname.
延 (ëÂÂì¼ ì° ') is the most common hanja character used for the surname "Yeon". The most common bon-gwan is the Goksan Yeon clan (곡ì° ì°ì¨), whose ancestor Yeon Gye-ryeong originated from Hongnong Commandery and later went to Goryeo. According to the 2015 census, 34,766 people had this surname.
The Naju Yeon clan uses the hanja character (é£, ìÂÂë¿ì ì° itdaeul yeon) to denote their surname. They are the descendants of , who contributed to the founding of Goryeo. According to the 2015 census, 59 people had this surname.
Yeon (æ·µ) was the surname of Yà Ân Kaesomun, a general of Goguryeo. It became extinct when this family emigrated to the Tang dynasty, with the remaining family members changing their surname due to the naming taboo; the personal name of the first Tang emperor, Li Yuan (æÂÂæ·µ) used the character, æ·µ and it was illegal for one's surname to be the same as the emperor's name. *Yeon (guess what) (born 2006), Valorant Player