Sun-Min

given name · Latin script

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

Sun-Min is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 518as 성민(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 567Kas Sungmin
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 765K

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 Sun-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)

≈100,000 named 성민, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
142 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 765K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

성민Hangul(measured from records)
SungminLatin(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sungmin in US United States, DE Germany, NZ New Zealand, 성민 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Songmin in CN China and Seongmin in MY Malaysia.

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)

Sun-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.

Where Sun-Min is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#18≈100,000 est.≈1 in 518409성민120
KP North Korea#766≈2,800 est.≈1 in 9.3K—Seungmin7
CN China—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 684K—Songmin16
US United States—587as Sungmin1 in 567K455Sungmin142
DE Germany—≈83 est.≈1 in 971K—Sungmin31
TW Taiwan—≈66 est.≈1 in 358K—Sung-Min6
MO Macao#113≈47 est.≈1 in 13K—성민1
MY Malaysia—≈43 est.≈1 in 765K—Seongmin4
NZ New Zealand—≈11 est.≈1 in 435K—Sungmin9

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. 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)

Sun-Min is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written SunMin

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written SunMin

7 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)

19601970198019902000Kim Sunmin, b. 1964Jung Sun-min, b. 1974Kim Seon-min, b. 1974Soonmin Seo, b. 1976Soon Min Lee, b. 1977Sunmin, b. 1987Hwang Soon-min, b. 1990Kim Sun-min, b. 1991Moon Seon-min, b. 1992Lee Soon-min, b. 1994
  • Kim Sunminb. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean health care expert
  • Jung Sun-minb. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean basketball player (born 1974)
  • Kim Seon-minb. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film editor
  • Soonmin Seob. 1976KRnot in their usual nameresearcher
  • Soon Min Leeb. 1977KRnot in their usual namephysician, ORCID id # 0000-0003-0174-1065
  • Sunminb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Hwang Soon-minb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Kim Sun-minb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Moon Seon-minb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Lee Soon-minb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (1994-)

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 Sun-Min under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sun-Min a male or female name?
Sun-Min 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 Sun-Min have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named 성민 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sun-Min?
In the United States, the national register counted 587 people named Sungmin in 2020, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
How common is Sun-Min compared with other names?
In South Korea, Sun-Min is the 18th 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, “Sun-Min” — the 18th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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