Mok

Its members claim descent from Mok Hyo-gi [ko], an official under Gojong of Goryeo.

[8][9] Historically, another hanja meaning 'tree' (木; 나무 목; Namu Mok) had also been used as a surname by the Mok clan of Baekje, but this surname is no longer extant in the Korean peninsula.

[11] 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.

[4] The 2010 United States Census found 2,707 people with the surname Mok, making it the 11,597th-most-common name in the country.

In both censuses, about nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and five percent as White.