Ён
given name · Cyrillic script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ён is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 106K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 22Kas Yong
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 43Kas 중헌
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ён itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
15,448 named Yong, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Joong in KR South Korea, US United States, NL Netherlands, Ен in RU Russia and Yong in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ён counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 15,448as Yong | 1 in 22K | 8.8K | Joong | 129 |
| CN China | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Yong | 13 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Ен | 121 |
| KR South Korea | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 17K | Joong | 99 |
| SE Sweden | 400as Yen | 1 in 26K | 400 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 217as Yen | 1 in 80K | 1.8K | Joong | 17 |
| FI Finland | 92as Yen | 1 in 61K | 405 | — | 1 |
15,448 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling yong. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ён is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kv, strong
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dng, ocean
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In myv, side
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ion Creangăb. 1837ROnot in their usual nameMoldavian - born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher
- Ion Antonescub. 1882ROnot in their usual nameprime minister of Romania during World War II; self-proclaimed "Leader" of the Romanian state between 1940–1944, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)
- Ion Iliescub. 1930ROnot in their usual namePresident of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004)
- Jon Griesb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, writer, director
- Jon Fosseb. 1959NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian writer, theater writer and translator
- Jon Landaub. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer (1960–2024)
- Jon Favreaub. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
- Jon Sedab. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Jon Dahl Tomassonb. 1976DKnot in their usual nameDanish footballer and manager
- Jon Jonesb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ён a male or female name?
- Ён is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ён have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Yong, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ён?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,448 people named Yong in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%91%D0%BDThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ён”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.