Mok

, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea Mok may transcribe the pronunciation, in different varieties of Chinese, of some Chinese surnames spelled as Mo or Mu in Pinyin (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation), including: • Mò (), spelled Mok based on its pronunciation in Cantonese (; IPA: ) or Teochew (Peng'im: ; IPA: ). • Mù (), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew. According to Patrick Hanks, some Cantonese speakers in the United Kingdom and the United States also spell this name as Mok, though Muk is probably a more common transcription of the Cantonese pronunciation (; IPA: ). • Mù (), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew. • Mù (), homophonous with the first surname above in Teochew. The Dutch surname Mok is a variant spelling of Mock. The Hungarian surname Mók was originally a given name. That given name might be a hypocorism of Mózes, which is the Hungarian form of the given names Moises or Moses. Historically, another hanja meaning 'tree' (; ) had also been used as a surname by the Mok clan of Baekje, but this surname is no longer extant in the Korean peninsula. ==Statistics==

In the Netherlands, there were 421 people with the surname Mok as of 2007, up from 112 in 1947. The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,191 people in 2,493 households with the surname Mok; all but ten of those people stated that they were members of the Sacheon Mok clan. According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 450 people on the island of Great Britain and nine on the island of Ireland with the surname Mok as of 2011; no bearers of the surname were recorded in Great Britain in 1881. As of 2023 there is one Mok living in Oslo, Norway. ==People==

Cambodian surname • Mok Mareth (; born 1948), Cambodian politician • Theavy Mok (; born 1963), Cambodian plastic surgeon Chinese surname • Mok Kwai-lan (; 1892–1982), fourth spouse of Lingnan martial arts grandmaster Wong Fei-hung • Mok Chun Wah (; born 1929), Hong Kong footballer • Mok Cheuk Wing (; born 1949), Hong Kong judo athlete • Mok Ying-fan (; born 1951), Hong Kong politician • Ngaiming Mok (; born 1956), Hong Kong mathematician • Warren Mok (; born 1958), Macau operatic tenor • Max Mok (; born 1960), Hong Kong actor • Mok Ka Sha (; born 1962), Hong Kong table tennis player • Charles Mok (; born 1964), Hong Kong internet entrepreneur and politician • Hoyan Mok (; born 1969), Hong Kong actress who won the 1993 Miss Hong Kong Pageant • Karen Mok (; born 1970), Hong Kong actress and pop singer • Patricia Mok (; born 1971), Singaporean actress • Rosanda Mok (; born 1972), Hong Kong politician • Zandra Mok (; born 1973), Hong Kong television reporter and politician • Monica Mok (; born 1983), Beijing-born Australian actress • Mok Ying Ren (; born 1988), Singaporean triathlete and long-distance runner • Mok Hing Ling (), Chinese modern ink painter • May Mok (), Hong Kong sound effects editor • Philip Mok (), Hong Kong professor of electrical engineering Korean surname • Mok Jin-seok (; born 1980), South Korean Go player • Mok Un-ju (born 1981), North Korean gymnast • Yebin Mok (born 1984), South Korean-born American figure skater Other or unknown • Abraham Mok (1888–1944), Dutch gymnast murdered in the Holocaust • Jack Mok (born 1935), South African rower • Clement Mok (born 1958), Canadian graphic designer • Ken Mok (born 1961), American television producer • Al Mok, American computer scientist • Judith Mok, Dutch soprano ==References==