민중
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: minjung; the ruled class people, of the peasantry or working-class
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
민중 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 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 25Mas Minjoung
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 민중 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 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 Minjoung in US United States and Min-Joong in GB United Kingdom.
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)minjung; the ruled class people, of the peasantry or working-class
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)민중 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 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 민중 | 29 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 25M | Minjoung | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Min-Joong | 7 |
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.
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)- Yun Min-jungb. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, 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 민중 mean, and where does it come from?
- minjung; the ruled class people, of the peasantry or working-class Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 민중 a male or female name?
- 민중 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 민중 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named 민중 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 민중.
- How common is the name 민중?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,900 people in South Korea have 민중 as their first given name, about 1 in 18 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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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%BC%EC%A4%91The 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, “민중”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.