Min-Joo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Min-Joo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. In Macao it is the 71st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 979as 민주(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 981Kas Minju
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 8.3M

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-Joo 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.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈53,000 named 민주, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

민주Hangul(measured from records)
MinjuLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Minju in US United States, AU Australia, CN China and 1 more, 민주 in KR South Korea, Min-Ju in TW Taiwan and 미주 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Min-Joo 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-Joo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#117≈53,000 est.≈1 in 979516민주106
KP North Korea—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 12K—Minju6
CN China—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Minju9
TW Taiwan—≈740 est.≈1 in 32K—Min-Ju8
US United States—339as Minju1 in 981K314Minju97
MO Macao#71≈92 est.≈1 in 6.7K—미주1
AU Australia—≈47 est.≈1 in 541K1Minju26
BE Belgium—≈1 est.≈1 in 8.3M3—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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Min-Joo 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 Minjoo

6 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(measured from records)

19701980199020002010Kim Min-ju, b. 1979Kim Min-joo, b. 1985Seo Min-ju, b. 1988Joo, b. 1990Yeo Min-joo, b. 1991Kim Min-ju, b. 1993Jeon Minju, b. 1994Kim Min-ju, b. 1997Kim Min-ju, b. 2001Minju, b. 2004
  • Kim Min-jub. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1979
  • Kim Min-joob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean news anchor
  • Seo Min-jub. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Joob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
  • Yeo Min-joob. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Kim Min-jub. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
  • Jeon Minjub. 1994KRSouth Korean singer
  • Kim Min-jub. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born June 18, 1997)
  • Kim Min-jub. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, born 2001
  • Minjub. 2004KRSouth Korean singer (born 2004)

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Min-Joo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)20001—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Min-Joo a male or female name?
Min-Joo is a female 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-Joo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named 민주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Min-Joo?
In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Minju in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
How common is Min-Joo compared with other names?
In South Korea, Min-Joo is the 117th 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, “Min-Joo” — the 117th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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