Jūn

given name · Latin script

Jūn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short for English Junior. Alternatively, for those of Japanese descent, from Japanese じゅん (Jun).

rarermore common
  • JPJapan≈1 in 606(inferred from the name graph)
  • CNChina≈1 in 861
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.2K

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 Jūn 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
342 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 606 (inferred from the name graph)

Japan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JūnLatin(measured from records)
준호Hangul(measured from records)
ЮнCyrillic(measured from records)
จินาThai(measured from records)

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jun in JP Japan, PH Philippines, CN China and 3 more and 준호 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)

Short for English Junior. Alternatively, for those of Japanese descent, from Japanese じゅん (Jun).

Sources 6

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jūn 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.

Where Jūn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈1,600,000 est.≈1 in 861—Jun179
JP Japan#40≈210,000 est.≈1 in 606—Jun199
KR South Korea#4≈94,000 est.≈1 in 5541.1M준호227
PH Philippines#370≈53,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Jun124
MY Malaysia#180≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K875Jun90
SG Singapore#128≈4,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Jun126
ES Spain—6271 in 80K4.6KJun49

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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jūn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Jůn, Jùn, Jün, Jun, Juṅ

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Zhuge Jun, b. 100Liu Jun, b. 926Wang Jun, b. 1941Wang Jun, b. 1952Zhang Jun, b. 1960Dong Jun, b. 1961Wang Jun, b. 1963Jun Liu, b. 1965Lei Jun, b. 1969Zhang Jun, b. 1977
  • Zhuge Junb. 100politician (0100-0200)
  • Liu Junb. 926Northern Han emperor
  • Wang Junb. 1941CNChinese businessman (1941-2019), son of Wang Zhen
  • Wang Junb. 1952CNChinese politician
  • Zhang Junb. 1960CNChinese diplomat
  • Dong Junb. 1961CNMinister of National Defense of China (2023-current)
  • Wang Junb. 1963CNOlympic medalist in basketball
  • Jun Liub. 1965USChinese-American mathematician and statistician
  • Lei Junb. 1969CNChinese businessman, cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi
  • Zhang Junb. 1977CNChinese badminton player

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jūn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jūn mean, and where does it come from?
Short for English Junior. Alternatively, for those of Japanese descent, from Japanese じゅん (Jun). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 4 other sources.
Is Jūn a male or female name?
Jūn 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 Jūn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Jūn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jun.
How common is the name Jūn?
In Spain, the national register counted 627 people named Jūn, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
How common is Jūn compared with other names?
In South Korea, Jūn is the 4th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jūn” — the 4th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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