So-Min
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
So-Min is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.7Kas 소민(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- ESSpain≈1 in 35Mas 소민
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 So-Min 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
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 named 소민, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Somin in US United States, SG Singapore and 소민 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)
So-Min 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 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 280 | 소민 | 57 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 60 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 328M | listed | Somin | 38 |
| ES Spain | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 35M | 10 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | Somin | 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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Shin So-minb. 1973KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Yang So-minb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Lee So Minb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Jeon So-minb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1986
- Jung So-minb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Jeon So Minb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, born 1996
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 So-Min a male or female name?
- So-Min 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 So-Min have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named 소민 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is So-Min most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, So-Min is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name So-Min?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named So-Min in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about So-Min?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/so-minThe 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, “So-Min”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.