Hyang
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative letter-case form of Hyang
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haɪæŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hyang is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 422K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 3.5Kas 미향
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 7.4K
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 Hyang 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
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 named 미향, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 미향 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)
Alternative letter-case form of Hyang.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyang 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 | #617 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | 미향 | 101 |
| KP North Korea | #557 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Hyang | 19 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Hyang | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Hyang | 1 |
| US United States | — | 789 | 1 in 422K | 766 | Hyang | 111 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Hyang | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hyang | 3 |
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. 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)
Hyang is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, hyang: An unseen spirit with supernatural powers, in ancient Indonesian mythology
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuu, Incense
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Pastil
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Smell
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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)
- Munjong of Joseonb. 1414KRnot in their usual name5th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 766 | #14,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #14,807 |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 Hyang mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative letter-case form of Hyang. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hyang?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪæŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Hyang a male or female name?
- Hyang 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.
- In which country does Hyang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named 미향 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyang?
- In the United States, the national register counted 789 people named Hyang in 2020, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyang compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyang is the 617th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hyang?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyangThe 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, “Hyang” — the 617th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.