Poyŏng

given name · Latin script

Poyŏng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.8M(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈18 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PoyŏngLatin(measured from records)
포용Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Po-Yŏng 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)

Poyŏng 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 Poyŏng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea≈18 est.≈1 in 2.8MPo-Yŏng7

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.

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)

19701980199020002010Kim Bo-young, b. 1975Jang Bo-young, b. 1976Jun Bo Young, b. 1977Yoon Se-ah, b. 1978Yoon Bo-young, b. 1978Lee Bo-young, b. 1979Kim Bo-young, b. 1980Park Bo-young, b. 1990Kim Bo-young, b. 2002Jeong Bo-young, b. 2003
  • Kim Bo-youngb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean author
  • Jang Bo-youngb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Jun Bo Youngb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Yoon Se-ahb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Yoon Bo-youngb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Lee Bo-youngb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress and model
  • Kim Bo-youngb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
  • Park Bo-youngb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1990)
  • Kim Bo-youngb. 2002KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
  • Jeong Bo-youngb. 2003KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean tennis player

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Poyŏng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Poyŏng a male or female name?
Poyŏng 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 Poyŏng have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 people named Poyŏng in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Po-Yŏng.
How common is the name Poyŏng?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 people in South Korea have Poyŏng as their first given name, about 1 in 2.8 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poy%C5%8Fng

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 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, “Poyŏng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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