Min-Jae

Name: Min-Jae: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Min-Jae is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

EEEstonia≈1 in 430K(inferred from the name graph)
AUAustralia≈1 in 870Kfew records
USUnited States1 in 901K

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-Jae 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: 109 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 431K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

Min-JaeLatin

민재Hangul

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Minjae in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more and 민재 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

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

Min-Jae 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 Min-Jae is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
KR South Korea	#253	≈27,000 est.	≈1 in 1.9K	246	민재	100
US United States	—	369	1 in 901K	292	Minjae	109
ZA South Africa	—	≈36 est.	≈1 in 1.8M	—	Minjae	1
AU Australia	—	≈31 est.	≈1 in 865K	1	Minjae	29
DE Germany	—	≈20 est.	≈1 in 4.1M	—	Minjae	13
NZ New Zealand	—	≈4 est.	≈1 in 1.3M	—	Minjae	3
EE Estonia	—	≈3 est.	≈1 in 431K	listed	—	2

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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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

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

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Minjae

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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

Kim Min-jaeb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
Kim Min-jaeb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
Kim Min-jaeb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean weightlifter
Jang Min-jeb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
Seong Min-jaeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
Choi Min-jaeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
Kim Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (born 1996)
Kim Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and rapper
Shin Min-jaeb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1996-)
Lee Min-jaeb. 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

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Min-Jae a male or female name?: Min-Jae 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.
In which country does Min-Jae have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named 민재 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Min-Jae?: In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Min-Jae in 2020, about 1 in 901 thousand residents.
How common is Min-Jae compared with other names?: In South Korea, Min-Jae is the 253rd 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-jae

The 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 2026-10-13 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-Jae” — the 253rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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