경
surname · Hangul script
Meaning: In the Joseon Dynasty (14th-19th centuries), the term used by the king to refer to any official above the second rank (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/kjʌ̹ŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) Korean · from Wiktionary
경 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. 경 is also written Kyung in Latin and Кюнг in Cyrillic.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 170few recordsas Kyong
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8Kfew recordsas Kyung
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 경 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Kyong, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
경 in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kyung in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Kyong in KP North Korea, IE Ireland.
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.
How to pronounce 경
- Korean:/kjʌ̹ŋ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)In the Joseon Dynasty (14th-19th centuries), the term used by the king to refer to any official above the second rank.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)경 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #74 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 174 | 1 | Kyong | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Kyung | 3 |
| KR South Korea | #657 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 18K | 경 | 198 |
| US United States | — | 7,218as Kyung | 1 in 46K | 5.2K | Kyung | 274 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Kyung | 47 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Kyung | 68 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Kyong | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)경 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 jje, so much
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 경 mean, and where does it come from?
- In the Joseon Dynasty (14th-19th centuries), the term used by the king to refer to any official above the second rank. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce 경?
- In Korean /kjʌ̹ŋ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named 경?
- Mondonomo estimates about 153 thousand people named Kyong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, South Korea, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name 경?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,218 people named Kyung in 2020, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is 경 compared with other names?
- In North Korea, 경 is the 74th most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EA%B2%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, “경” — ranked 80th in North Korea (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.