Ijin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nonstandard form of izin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ijin is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Ijin is also written 이진 in Korean (Hangul).
- CNChina≈1 in 14Kfew recordsas Yijin(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 20Kas 이진
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.5Mfew recordsas Yijin
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 Ijin 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈97,000 named Yijin, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est., as Yijin
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ijin in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yijin in US United States, CN China, MY Malaysia and 1 more, 이진 in KR South Korea and Yi-Jin in TW Taiwan.
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)nonstandard form of izin
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)Ijin 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 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Yijin | 55 |
| KR South Korea | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 104 | 이진 | 31 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Yi-Jin | 17 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Yijin | 93 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Yijin | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 652K | — | Yijin | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 6as Yijin | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Ijin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ban, permission
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In srs, to sing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, s. m., engin ; génie, ingéniosité, invention ; artifice
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ijin mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard form of izin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ijin a male or female name?
- Ijin 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Ijin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Yijin in China, more than in any other country we hold. After it come South Korea, Taiwan, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ijin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6 people named Yijin, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ijin?
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/ijinThe 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, “Ijin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.