민주
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: democracy
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Supreme Court, 2015
민주 is a female given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 790Kfew recordsas Minju
- INIndia≈1 in 960Kfew recordsas Minju
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 민주 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 772 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, 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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Minju in US United States, KP North Korea, Minj in IN India, Min-Ju in TW Taiwan and Minjoo in SG Singapore.
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)democracy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)민주 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 | #117 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 772 | 516 | 민주 | 106 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Minju | 6 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 963K | 40K | Minj | 8 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Min-Ju | 8 |
| US United States | — | 339as Minju | 1 in 981K | 314 | Minju | 97 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | 미주 | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 618K | — | Minjoo | 6 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)- Kim Min-jub. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1979
- Kim Min-joob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean news anchor
- Seo Min-jub. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Joob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Yeo Min-joob. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Min-jub. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Jeon Minjub. 1994KRSouth Korean singer
- Kim Min-jub. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born June 18, 1997)
- Kim Min-jub. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, born 2001
- Minjub. 2004KRSouth Korean singer (born 2004)
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2009 | 1K | #27 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2008 | 865 | #29 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2010 | 811 | #36 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2011 | 764 | #38 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2012 | 640 | #57 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2013 | 610 | #63 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2014 | 584 | #67 |
| KR South Korea | Supreme Court — newborn given names | 2015 | 516 | #86 |
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
- What does the name 민주 mean, and where does it come from?
- democracy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 민주 a male or female name?
- 민주 is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: South Korea (Supreme Court, 2015).
- In which country does 민주 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named 민주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 민주.
- How common is the name 민주?
- In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Minju in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
- How common is 민주 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 민주 is the 117th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EB%AF%BC%EC%A3%BCThe 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, “민주” — the 117th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.