仁

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

仁 is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Chinese94%

  from a descendant of Ji clan named Youqin Ren; also said to come from a Ren clan among the Khitans

  as a name·新华姓氏词典 (Xinhua dictionary of Chinese surnames)

  compassionate; humane

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  kind

  as a word·Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)

• Japanese5.7%

  benevolence

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

仁 is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, China, Malaysia, France

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

仁 is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Korean, hanja form of 인 (“benevolence”)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name 仁 mean, and where does it come from?

from a descendant of Ji clan named Youqin Ren; also said to come from a Ren clan among the Khitans Recorded by 新华姓氏词典 (Xinhua dictionary of Chinese surnames).

Is 仁 a male or female name?

仁 is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does 仁 have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named 仁 in Japan, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name 仁?

Mondonomo estimates about 37,000 people in Japan have 仁 as their first given name, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

How common is 仁 compared with other names?

In Taiwan, 仁 is the 65th most common given name of 662,391 given names recorded there.