Changju
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃaŋʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Changju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In North Korea it is the 62nd most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 728as Chang(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.3Kas Chang
- CNChina≈1 in 1.3Kas Chang
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 Changju 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 537 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 named Chang, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est., as Chang
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chang in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 2 more and Chang-Yu in TW Taiwan.
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)
Changju 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Chang | 111 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 37 | — | Chang-Yu | 21 |
| US United States | #322 | 81,939as Chang | 1 in 4.1K | 83K | Chang | 537 |
| MY Malaysia | #120 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | — | Chang | 131 |
| KP North Korea | #62 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Chang | 39 |
| SG Singapore | #87 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Chang | 166 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
- Kim Chang-jub. 1923KPNorth Korean politician
- Kim Chang-jub. 1950KRSouth Korean voice actor, born 1950
- Chang-Ju Kimb. 1958KRSouth Korean physiologist, researcher and professor, born 1958
- Kim Chang-jub. 1972KRSouth Korean film editor and director
- Kim Chang-jub. 1985KRSouth Korean sailor
- Han Chang-joob. 1995KRSouth Korean association football player
- Ryu Changjoob. 2005KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
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).
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 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #205 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Changju?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaŋʒu/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Changju a male or female name?
- Changju 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 Changju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Chang in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Changju?
- In the United States, the national register counted 81,939 people named Chang in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Changju compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Changju is the 62nd most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Changju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/changjuThe 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, “Changju” — the 62nd most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.