Sumin
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/sumɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sumin is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 570K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 781as 수민
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 6.9K
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 Sumin 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
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 named 수민, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 수민 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)Sumin 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 | #110 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 781 | 462 | 수민 | 107 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Sumin | 6 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 1 in 570K | 449 | Sumin | 114 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 555K | — | Sumin | 49 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Sumin | 14 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | 수민 | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 1 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sumin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of sumar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hong Choong Minb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Oh Yoo-nab. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Lee Su Minb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Choi Su-minb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
- Ji Su-minb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Lee Su-minb. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1995-)
- Jo Soo-minb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1999-)
- Suminb. 2001KRSouth Korean singer, member of the girl group StayC
- Lee Soo-minb. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress born 2001
- Park Su-minb. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 449 | #18,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 135 | #18,452 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sumin?
- A machine transcription gives /sumɪn/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Sumin a male or female name?
- Sumin is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sumin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named 수민 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sumin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Sumin in 2020, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
- How common is Sumin compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sumin is the 110th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sumin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/suminThe 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, “Sumin” — the 110th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.