Myeonghwa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Myeonghwa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 3.2Kas 명화(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 103Kas Myong
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 846as Myong
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 Myeonghwa 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 846 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 named Myong, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est., as Myong
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Myong in US United States, NL Netherlands, KP North Korea and 3 more and 명화 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(measured from records)
Myeonghwa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #59 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 846 | 2 | Myong | 30 |
| KR South Korea | #644 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 29K | 명화 | 72 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Myong | 9 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Myong | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,236as Myong | 1 in 103K | 2.8K | Myong | 190 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Myong | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Myong | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
- Myung-wha Chungb. 1944USnot in their usual nameKorean musician
- Jo Myeong-hwab. 1945KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director
- Kim Myong-hwab. 1967KPNorth Korean sports shooter (* 1967)
- Jon Myong-hwab. 1993KPNorth Korean footballer
- Myung-Hwa JungKRnot in their usual namephysicist (ORCID 0000-0003-3122-8078)
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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Myeonghwa a male or female name?
- Myeonghwa 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 Myeonghwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Myong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Myeonghwa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,236 people named Myong in 2020, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Myeonghwa compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Myeonghwa is the 59th most common given name of 2,746 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/myeonghwaThe 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, “Myeonghwa” — the 59th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.