Seon-Kyu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seon-Kyu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 4.4Kas 선규(inferred from the name graph)
- MOMacao≈1 in 11Kas 선규
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235Kas Sunkyu
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 Seon-Kyu 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
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named 선규, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 선규
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 선규 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Sunkyu in US United States, CA Canada and Sungyu in CN China.
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)
Seon-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 | #585 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | 선규 | 44 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Sungyu | 2 |
| MO Macao | #520 | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | 선규 | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Sunkyu | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Sunkyu | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 2as Shengyu | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2as Shengyu | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- I Son-gjub. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean musician
- Jin Seon-gyub. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Lee Sun-kyub. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean volleyball player
- Kang Sun-kyub. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Kim Sun-kyub. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Kim Sun-kyub. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
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 Seon-Kyu a male or female name?
- Seon-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.
- In which country does Seon-Kyu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named 선규 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Seon-Kyu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Shengyu in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Seon-Kyu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Seon-Kyu is the 585th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Seon-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/seon-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, “Seon-Kyu” — the 585th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.