Seunghyeon

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Seunghyeon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.

  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 620as 승현(inferred from the name graph)
  • KPNorth Korea≈1 in 26Kas Sunghyun
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Sunghyun

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 Seunghyeon 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)

≈84,000 named 승현, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
102 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 617 (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est., as 승현

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
승현Hangul(measured from records)
SunghyunLatin(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sunghyun in US United States, DE Germany, GT Guatemala and 승현 in KR South Korea, MO Macao.

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)

Seunghyeon 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 Seunghyeon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#12≈84,000 est.≈1 in 617416승현102
KP North Korea—≈990 est.≈1 in 26K1—2
US United States—311as Sunghyun1 in 1.1M254Sunghyun83
MO Macao—≈93 est.≈1 in 6.6K—승현1
DE Germany—≈43 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Sunghyun15
GT Guatemala—≈16 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Sunghyun2

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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Seunghyeon is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Seung-Hyeon

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19701980199020002010Baek Seung-hyeon, b. 1975Kim Seung-hyun, b. 1979Ji Seung-hyun, b. 1981T.O.P, b. 1987Kang Seung-Hyun, b. 1987Seungri, b. 1990Kevin Woo, b. 1991Song Seung-hyun, b. 1992Jung Seung-hyun, b. 1994Gu Seung-hyeon, b. 2004
  • Baek Seung-hyeonb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kim Seung-hyunb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Ji Seung-hyunb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • T.O.Pb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and actor (born 1987)
  • Kang Seung-Hyunb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model
  • Seungrib. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean former singer, member of Big Bang
  • Kevin Woob. 1991USnot in their usual nameKorean-American singer
  • Song Seung-hyunb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean musician
  • Jung Seung-hyunb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Gu Seung-hyeonb. 2004KRnot 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

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Seunghyeon a male or female name?
Seunghyeon 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 Seunghyeon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named 승현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Seunghyeon?
In the United States, the national register counted 311 people named Sunghyun in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Seunghyeon compared with other names?
In South Korea, Seunghyeon is the 12th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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, “Seunghyeon” — the 12th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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