민재

given name · Hangul script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Supreme Court, 2024

민재 is a male given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 430Kas Minjae
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 870Kfew recordsas Minjae

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 민재 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈27,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
109 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
민재Hangul(measured from records)
MinjaeLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Minjae in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more.

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 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

민재 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.

Where 민재 is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#253≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K246민재100
US United States—369as Minjae1 in 901K292Minjae109
ZA South Africa—≈36 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Minjae1
AU Australia—≈31 est.≈1 in 865K1Minjae29
DE Germany—≈20 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Minjae13
NZ New Zealand—≈4 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Minjae3
EE Estonia—≈3 est.≈1 in 431Klisted—2

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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1970198019902000Kim Min-jae, b. 1973Kim Min-jae, b. 1979Kim Min-jae, b. 1983Jang Min-je, b. 1990Seong Min-jae, b. 1994Choi Min-jae, b. 1994Kim Min-jae, b. 1996Kim Min-jae, b. 1996Shin Min-jae, b. 1996Lee Min-jae, b. 2000
  • Kim Min-jaeb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
  • Kim Min-jaeb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kim Min-jaeb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean weightlifter
  • Jang Min-jeb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
  • Seong Min-jaeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Choi Min-jaeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
  • Kim Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (born 1996)
  • Kim Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and rapper
  • Shin Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1996-)
  • Lee Min-jaeb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, born 2000

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)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting 민재
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20121.2K#13
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20111.2K#15
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20091.1K#11
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20101.1K#13
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20131.1K#15
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names20141.1K#20
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2008957#12
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2015935#26
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2016857#25
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2017840#24
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2018758#27
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2019570#38

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Is 민재 a male or female name?
민재 is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: South Korea (Supreme Court, 2024).
In which country does 민재 have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named 민재 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 민재.
How common is the name 민재?
In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Minjae in 2020, about 1 in 901 thousand residents.
How common is 민재 compared with other names?
In South Korea, 민재 is the 253rd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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, “민재” — the 253rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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