Jeon
Jeon is most often a Korean surname, also found as a rare English historical spelling in older scholarship.
The #7,791 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 72,595 Americans shares it.
Etymology
As a Korean surname, Jeon is usually romanized from several different hanja-based family names that share the same modern spelling, most commonly 傳, 田, 全, or 錢 depending on the clan. The spelling does not point to a single literal meaning on its own, because the underlying Chinese character and lineage matter. In older English records, Jeon can also appear as a rare variant spelling tied to other medieval names, but the excerpt supplied does not establish a secure etymology for that usage.
History
In modern usage, Jeon is best known as a Korean family name and is common in Korean diaspora communities. Because multiple clans can be romanized the same way, the surname may refer to different ancestral lines with distinct origins. The provided historical excerpt is only an incidental cross-reference and does not give enough evidence to build a specific English surname history.
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Fun fact
In Korean genealogy, the same romanized surname spelling can represent more than one ancestral clan, each with its own bon-gwan (clan origin place).
From the historical record
“Montagu j 455 JEon , see Ean iEona, see Eona Eddius /Eppa, see Eppa”
— Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: a list of Anglo-Saxon proper names