Soo-Wan
given name · Latin script
Soo-Wan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 17M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 19M
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 384Kas 서완
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Soo-Wan 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
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17M (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 named 서완, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Soowan in US United States, CA Canada and 서완 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soo-Wan 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 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 384K | 서완 | 17 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 19M | Soowan | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | Soowan | 3 |
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.
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)
- Jin Soo Wanb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter
- Kim Soo-Whanb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean judoka
- Kim Su-wanb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1989-)
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 Soo-Wan a male or female name?
- Soo-Wan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Soo-Wan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 people named 서완 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Soo-Wan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 people in South Korea have 서완 as their first given name, about 1 in 384 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soo-wanThe 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, “Soo-Wan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.