Geon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ʒjun/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Geon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.1Mfew records
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 Geon 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)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 named 건, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North 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 건 in KR South Korea.
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)A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
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)Geon 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 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 235 | 건 | 95 |
| KP North Korea | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 1 | — | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Geon | 1 |
| US United States | 206 | 1 in 1.6M | 192 | Geon | 93 |
| BR Brazil | 97 | 1 in 2.2M | 108 | Geon | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 575K | — | Geon | 8 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | Geon | 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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Geon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, that, yon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wang Geonb. 877KPfounder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)
- Gun Hashimotob. 1886JPnot in their usual nameJapanese military personnel
- Kang Konb. 1918KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean military leader
- Goh Kunb. 1938KRnot in their usual nameActing President of South Korea from March to May 2004, Prime Minister of South Korea from 1997 to 1998 and from 2003 to 2004
- Shin Kuhnb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician (1941-2015)
- Kim Gunnb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean ambassador
- Yang Keonb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Geon Nelb. 1981ZASouth African actor
- Kim Geonb. 2000KRSouth Korean baseball player (2000-)
- Geonb. 2000KRSouth Korean singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 192 | #37,708 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 108 | #17,665 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 97 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 95 | #42,213 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 85 | #39,263 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 43 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 23 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #37,708 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
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 Geon mean, and where does it come from?
- A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Geon?
- In Portuguese /ʒjun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Geon a male or female name?
- Geon is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Geon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named 건 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Geon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 206 people named Geon in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Geon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geonThe 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, “Geon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.