Yongjoo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Yongjoo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.3Kas 용주(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 22Kas Yong
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8M
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 Yongjoo 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
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named 용주, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yong in US United States, KP North Korea and 용주 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
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)Yongjoo 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 | #78 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 17K | 용주 | 218 |
| US United States | — | 15,448as Yong | 1 in 22K | 8.8K | Yong | 239 |
| KP North Korea | #11 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Yong | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 391as Yong | 1 in 128K | 400 | — | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 263as Yong | 1 in 39K | 263 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 48as Yong | 1 in 122K | 40 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 41 | — | 6 |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yongjoo a male or female name?
- Yongjoo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yongjoo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named 용주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yongjoo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,448 people named Yong in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Yongjoo compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Yongjoo is the 78th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yongjooThe 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, “Yongjoo” — the 78th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.