미
given name · Hangul script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
미 is a given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2Kas May
- LALaos≈1 in 2.2Kas May
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 미 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #742 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)
103,306 named May, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled May in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, DE Germany and 1 more, Mi in US United States, IN India and Mati in LA Laos.
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 across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
미 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #236 | 103,306as May | 1 in 3.2K | 103K | Mi | 558 |
| IN India | — | 73,466as Mali | 1 in 18K | 73K | Mi | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | #156 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 7 | May | 303 |
| DE Germany | #176 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | May | 197 |
| NP Nepal | — | 19,605as Mali | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | — | — |
| AU Australia | #195 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 6 | May | 246 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Mati | 11 |
| SG Singapore | #125 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | May | 122 |
| KR South Korea | — | 16 | 1 in 3.2M | 40K | 미 | 166 |
103,306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling may. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants | 2015 | 16 | #177 |
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname x bon-gwan (ancestral seat) population | 2015 | 10 | #8,900 |
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname x bon-gwan (ancestral seat) population | 2015 | 6 | #11,390 |
Reference works 4
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce 미?
- A machine transcription gives /mi/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is 미 a male or female name?
- 미 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 미 have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 103 thousand people named May, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is 미 most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, 미 is densest in South Korea — about 1 in 3.2 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name 미?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 16 people named 미 in 2015, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is 미 compared with other names?
- In the United States, 미 is the 236th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about 미?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EB%AF%B8The 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, “미” — the 236th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.