Songhwa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Songhwa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 19M(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 4.3Kas 성화
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.5Mas Sunghwa
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 Songhwa 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)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named 성화, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sunghwa in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 성화 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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Songhwa 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 | #903 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | 성화 | 38 |
| US United States | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 9.2M | — | Sunghwa | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Sunghwa | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Sunghwa | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 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). 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)- Cho Song-hwab. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean volleyball player
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #26,682 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #26,683 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Songhwa a male or female name?
- Songhwa 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 Songhwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named 성화 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Songhwa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Songhwa is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Songhwa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Songhwa in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Songhwa compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Songhwa is the 903rd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Songhwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/songhwaThe 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, “Songhwa” — the 903rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.