Seohyeon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seohyeon 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 29th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.1Kas 소현(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 873Kas Sohyun
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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 Seohyeon 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 named 소현, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sohyun in US United States, AU Australia, CN China and 1 more, 소현 in KR South Korea, 서현 in MO Macao and Seohyun in PK Pakistan.
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)
Seohyeon 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 | #109 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 26K | 소현 | 95 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Sohyun | 7 |
| US United States | — | 381as Sohyun | 1 in 873K | 378 | Sohyun | 113 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Seohyun | 1 |
| MO Macao | #29 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | 서현 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 654K | — | Sohyun | 28 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Sohyun | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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: This page provides statistics on popular baby names in South Korea based on official data from the Electronic Family Rel; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Yoon Seo-hyunb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Lee Seo-hyeonb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businesswoman
- Han Chae-ab. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Suh Hyun Choib. 1983KRnot in their usual namePh. D. Harvard University 2009
- Min Seo hyeonb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Son Suh-hyunb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
- Heo Seohyunb. 2002KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go Player
- Ahn Seo-hyunb. 2004KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Seohyeon a male or female name?
- Seohyeon 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 Seohyeon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named 소현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Seohyeon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seohyeon is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Seohyeon?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Seohyeon in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
- How common is Seohyeon compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Seohyeon is the 109th 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/seohyeonThe 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, “Seohyeon” — the 109th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.