이민
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: immigration; emigration
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
이민 is a given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 68Kas 의민(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 508Kas Yimin
- SESweden1 in 850Kas Yimin
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 이민 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)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 named 의민, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 의민
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 의민 in KR South Korea and Yimin in US United States.
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)
immigration; emigration
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
이민 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 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | 의민 | 19 |
| US United States | 655as Yimin | 1 in 508K | 369 | Yimin | 6 |
| ES Spain | 35as Yimin | 1 in 1.4M | 35 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 12as Yimin | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 6as Yimin | 1 in 6.4M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1as Yimin | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wang Yiminb. 1969CNChinese Go player
- Shei Iminb. 1989TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese Go player
- Yimin Chenresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3057-5062)
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 이민 mean, and where does it come from?
- immigration; emigration Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 이민 a male or female name?
- 이민 is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does 이민 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 763 people named 의민 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name 이민?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655 people named Yimin in 2020, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about 이민?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EC%9D%B4%EB%AF%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, “이민”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.