재미
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: fun; enjoyment (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
재미 is a female given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. 재미 is also written Jaemi in Latin.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 37Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 75Kas Jammie
- GYGuyana1 in 375Kas Jammie
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 재미 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
4,442 named Jammie, 2020
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
재미 in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jaemi in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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
(measured from records)fun; enjoyment
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)재미 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,442as Jammie | 1 in 75K | 3K | Jaemi | 117 |
| KR South Korea | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | 재미 | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Jaemi | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Jaemi | 27 |
| AU Australia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | Jaemi | 25 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Jaemi | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 2as Jammie | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
4,442 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling jammie. 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 재미 mean, and where does it come from?
- fun; enjoyment Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 재미 a male or female name?
- 재미 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.
- Which countries have the most people named 재미?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Jammie, more than in any other country we hold. After it come South Korea, Philippines, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name 재미?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,442 people named Jammie in 2020, about 1 in 75 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/%EC%9E%AC%EB%AF%B8The 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, “재미” — ranked 4279th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.