Wonyeong
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wonyeong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.6Kas 원영(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 809Kas Wonyoung
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7Mas Wonyoung
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 Wonyeong 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
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named 원영, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 원영
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wonyoung in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 3 more, 원영 in KR South Korea and Won-Young in NZ New Zealand.
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)
Wonyeong 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 | #371 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 원영 | 65 |
| US United States | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 5M | Wonyoung | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | Wonyoung | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | Wonyoung | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | Wonyoung | 5 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 809K | Wonyoung | 5 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | Wonyoung | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2M | Won-Young | 2 |
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)
- Song Won-youngb. 1928KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean journalist
- Yang Yiwonyoungb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean environmentalist and politician
- Jang Won-youngb. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Choi Won-youngb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Won-youngb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean lawyer and author
- Lee Wonyoungb. 1992KRSouth Korean Go player
- Jang Won-youngb. 2004KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer (born 2004)
- Li Yuanyingnot in their usual nameson of emperor Gaozu
- Wonyoung ChoeKRresearcher
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 Wonyeong a male or female name?
- Wonyeong 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 Wonyeong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named 원영 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wonyeong?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20,000 people in South Korea have 원영 as their first given name, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Wonyeong compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Wonyeong is the 371st most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wonyeong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wonyeongThe 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, “Wonyeong” — the 371st most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.