Sungmin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɐŋmɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sungmin 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.
- USUnited States1 in 567K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 518as 성민
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 358K
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 Sungmin 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
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 named 성민, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 성민 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Songmin in CN China, Seungmin in KP North Korea and Sung-Min in TW Taiwan.
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)
Sungmin 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 | #18 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 518 | 409 | 성민 | 120 |
| KP North Korea | #766 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Seungmin | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 684K | — | Songmin | 16 |
| US United States | — | 587 | 1 in 567K | 455 | Sungmin | 142 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 971K | — | Sungmin | 31 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 358K | — | Sung-Min | 6 |
| MO Macao | #113 | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | 성민 | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Sungmin | 9 |
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).
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 455 | #18,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 132 | #18,388 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sungmin?
- A machine transcription gives /sɐŋmɪn/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Sungmin a male or female name?
- Sungmin 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 Sungmin 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 Sungmin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 587 people named Sungmin in 2020, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
- How common is Sungmin compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Sungmin is the 18th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sungmin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sungminThe 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, “Sungmin” — the 18th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.