Jiyoon
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Jiyoon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 280as 지연(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 360Kas Jiyeon
- AUAustralia≈1 in 420Kfew recordsas Jiyeon
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 Jiyoon 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 named 지연, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 지연
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jiyeon in US United States, AU Australia, PK Pakistan, 지연 in KR South Korea and 지윤 in MO Macao.
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)Jiyoon 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 | #1 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | 481 | 지연 | 111 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Jiyoon | 8 |
| US United States | — | 925as Jiyeon | 1 in 360K | 921 | Jiyeon | 155 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 754K | 1 | Jiyeon | 3 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Jiyoon | 8 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | 지윤 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Jiyeon | 34 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)- Seol Jiyunb. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Lee Jee-yunb. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress and journalist
- Julie J. Chungb. 1973USnot in their usual nameUnited States diplomat
- Park Ji-yoonb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean announcer and presenter
- Park Ji-yoonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, born 1982
- Son Ji-yoonb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Jung Ji-yoonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress and model
- Moon Ji-yoonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1984-2020)
- Jeon Ji-yoonb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and rapper
- Hong Ji-yoonb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1991
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #21,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35 | #21,290 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jiyoon a male or female name?
- Jiyoon is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Jiyoon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 188 thousand people named 지연 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jiyoon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 925 people named Jiyeon in 2020, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.
- How common is Jiyoon compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jiyoon is the most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jiyoonThe 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, “Jiyoon” — the most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.