Yeon-Mi
given name · Latin script
Yeon-Mi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country.
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 22M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yeonmi in KR South Korea, 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)
Yeon-Mi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 1 | — | 3 |
| KR South Korea | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Yeonmi | 31 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Yeonmi | 27 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | 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.
Registers cited: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Yeonmi Kangb. 1968KRjewelry designer (born 1968)
- Seo Yeon-mib. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean announcer
- Park Yeon-mib. 1993KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean defector and conservative activist
- Yoo Yeon-mib. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #613 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yeon-Mi a male or female name?
- Yeon-Mi is a female 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 Yeon-Mi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 412 people named Yeon-Mi in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yeon-Mi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 people in North Korea have Yeon-Mi as their first given name, about 1 in 62 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Yeon-Mi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yeon-miThe 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, “Yeon-Mi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.