Min-Cheol
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Min-Cheol is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.5Kas 민철
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.5Mfew recordsas Minchul
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 Min-Cheol 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
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 named 민철, est.
recorded for this name
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 Mincheol in AU Australia, NL Netherlands, KP North Korea and 1 more, 민철 in KR South Korea, MO Macao and Minchul in US United States.
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)Min-Cheol 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 | #281 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | 민철 | 66 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 3 | Mincheol | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Minchul | 37 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | 민철 | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Mincheol | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Mincheol | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Mincheol | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | 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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kang Min-cholb. 1948KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean politician, born 1948
- Kim Min-chulb. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Jung Min-chulb. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Choi Min-chulb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Back Min-chulb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Keum Min-cheolb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Shin Min-chulb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Jang Min Chulb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean electronic sports player
- Soulkeyb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean esport gamer
- Kim Min-chulb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, born 2000
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #43 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Min-Cheol a male or female name?
- Min-Cheol 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 Min-Cheol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named 민철 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Min-Cheol?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Min-Cheol in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
- How common is Min-Cheol compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Min-Cheol is the 281st 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/min-cheolThe 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, “Min-Cheol” — the 281st most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.