Sun-Sin
given name · Latin script
Sun-Sin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 47Kas 순신(inferred from the name graph)
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 Sun-Sin 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
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named 순신, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 순신
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 순신 in KR South Korea and Sunsin in US United States.
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-Sin 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 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | 순신 | 18 |
| US United States | — | — | 122 | Sunsin | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | 123 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 49 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | 7 | — | — |
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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
- Yi Sun-sinb. 1545KRnot in their usual nameKorean (Joseon) naval commander (1545 – 1598)
- Chin Shunshinb. 1924JPnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic
- Kim Sun-shinb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television presenter
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 Sun-Sin a male or female name?
- Sun-Sin 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-Sin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named 순신 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sun-Sin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,100 people in South Korea have 순신 as their first given name, about 1 in 47 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/sun-sinThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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-Sin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.