Yeong-Min
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yeong-Min is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Yeong-Min is also written 영민 in Korean (Hangul).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 740as 영민(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 796Kas Youngmin
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.1Mfew recordsas Youngmin
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 Yeong-Min itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 named 영민, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yeong-Min in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Youngmin in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 1 more, 영민 in KR South Korea and Yeongmin in MY Malaysia.
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)Yeong-Min 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 | #58 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 736 | — | 영민 | 112 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Youngmin | 6 |
| US United States | — | 418as Youngmin | 1 in 796K | 308 | Youngmin | 116 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Youngmin | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Yeongmin | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Youngmin | 23 |
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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Noh Young-minb. 1957KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Kim Yeong-minb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Hyun Young-minb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
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 Yeong-Min a male or female name?
- Yeong-Min 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Yeong-Min?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named 영민 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come North Korea, United States, Germany and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yeong-Min?
- In the United States, the national register counted 418 people named Youngmin in 2020, about 1 in 796 thousand residents.
- How common is Yeong-Min compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Yeong-Min is the 58th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yeong-Min?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yeong-minThe 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, “Yeong-Min” — the 58th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.