미리
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: beforehand, in advance
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
미리 is a given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 1.3Kas Meeri
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 5.5Kas Miri
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 미리 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Miri in US United States, 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(measured from records)
beforehand, in advance
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
미리 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | 미리 | 46 |
| FI Finland | 4,256as Meeri | 1 in 1.3K | 11K | — | 2 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 20 | — | 8 |
| CN China | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 894K | — | Miri | 5 |
| US United States | 1,048as Miri | 1 in 317K | 1K | Miri | 214 |
| SE Sweden | 221as Meeri | 1 in 46K | 221 | — | 8 |
| AL Albania | 172as Miri | 1 in 18K | 165 | — | — |
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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
미리 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, dragon
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)
- Kyeon Mi-rib. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress and singer
- Yu Mirib. 1965KRSouth Korean singer
- Miri Yub. 1968KRJapanese writer of Korean origin and South Korean citizenship
- Han Mirib. 1980KRSouth Korean voice actress
- Miri Ichimarub. 1990JPbadminton player
- Kim Mirib. 1991KRSouth Korean Go player
- Matsuda Mirib. 1999JPJapanese idol
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 미리 mean, and where does it come from?
- beforehand, in advance Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 미리 a male or female name?
- 미리 is a female 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 미리 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named 미리 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 미리.
- How common is the name 미리?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,256 people named Meeri, about 1 in 1.3 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/%EB%AF%B8%EB%A6%ACThe 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, “미리”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.