Sang-Kyu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sang-Kyu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Sang-Kyu is also written 상규 in Korean (Hangul).
- USUnited States≈1 in 7.4Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.1Kas 상규
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 Sang-Kyu 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
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 named 상규, 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
Sang-Kyu in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sangkyu in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom, 상규 in KR South Korea and Sanggyu in KP North 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)Sang-Kyu 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 | #343 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | 상규 | 55 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 1 | Sanggyu | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Sangkyu | 40 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Sangkyu | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Sangkyu | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
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)- Park Sang-gyoob. 1951KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Sang-Gyoo Leeb. 1952KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean theologian (1952-)
- Kim Sang-gyuKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
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 Sang-Kyu a male or female name?
- Sang-Kyu 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Sang-Kyu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named 상규 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come North Korea, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sang-Kyu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Sang-Kyu in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
- How common is Sang-Kyu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sang-Kyu is the 343rd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sang-Kyu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sang-kyuThe 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, “Sang-Kyu” — the 343rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.