Dong-Wan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dong-Wan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 596K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 1.5M
- CACanada≈1 in 11M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 596K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dongwan in KR South Korea, US United States, CN China and 1 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dong-Wan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Dongwan | 8 |
| KR South Korea | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Dongwan | 44 |
| US United States | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Dongwan | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Dongwan | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
- Pak Dong-wanb. 1885KRnot in their usual nameKorean civil servant
- Cha Dong-wanb. 1947KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professor; Ph.D. Northwestern University 1975
- Kim Dong-wanb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
- Ryu Dong-wanb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Dong-Wan Seob. 2000KRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4971-834X)
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 2 sources across 0 countries.
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 Dong-Wan a male or female name?
- Dong-Wan 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 Dong-Wan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 959 people named Dong-Wan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dongwan.
- How common is the name Dong-Wan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Dong-Wan in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Dong-Wan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dong-wanThe 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, “Dong-Wan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.