Wonju
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Wonju is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Wonju is also written 원주 in Korean (Hangul).
- USUnited States≈1 in 14Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 5.2Kas 원주
- CACanada≈1 in 22Mfew records
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 Wonju 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
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14M (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named 원주, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Wonju in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wonjoo in US United States, CA Canada and 원주 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
(measured from records)capital of Kangwon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Wonju is read
(measured from records)Wonju is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Korean23%
capital of Kangwon.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
- English7.3%
A long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wonju 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 원주 | 38 |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 14M | Wonjoo | 49 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 22M | Wonjoo | 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)- Jeon Won-jub. 1939KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Moon Won-joob. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film actor
- Ri Won-jub. 2002not in their usual nameNorth Korean weightlifter (born 2002)
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
- Where does the name Wonju come from?
- capital of Kangwon. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- What does the name Wonju mean?
- In English, A long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan.
- Which countries have the most people named Wonju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named 원주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wonju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10,000 people in South Korea have 원주 as their first given name, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wonjuThe 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, “Wonju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.