Hyeonu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hyeonu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 665as 현우(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 27Kas Hyun
- USUnited States1 in 57Kas Hyun
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 Hyeonu 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)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 665 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named 현우, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 현우
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hyun in US United States, CA Canada, CN China, 현우 in KR South Korea, MO Macao, Hyunwoo in AU Australia and Hyeonwoo in VN Vietnam.
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)
Hyeonu 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 | #40 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 665 | 87 | 현우 | 246 |
| CN China | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hyun | 34 |
| US United States | — | 5,806as Hyun | 1 in 57K | 3.6K | Hyun | 311 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Hyeonwoo | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Hyun | 84 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Hyunwoo | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 346as Hyun | 1 in 29K | 346 | — | 6 |
| MO Macao | #52 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | 현우 | 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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
- Lee Hyun-woob. 1966KRSouth Korean singer and actor, born 1966
- Ha Hyun-woob. 1981KRSouth Korean singer-songwriter (born 1981)
- Seo Hyun-woob. 1983KRSouth Korean actor
- Ji Hyeon-ub. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and musician
- Hyeon-ub. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Hyeon-Woob. 1988KRnot in their usual namemale wrestler from South Korea
- Kim Hyun-woob. 1988KRSouth Korean baseball player
- Jo Hyeon-woob. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Shownub. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Lee Hyun-woob. 1993KRSouth Korean actor (1993-)
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 Hyeonu a male or female name?
- Hyeonu 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.
- In which country does Hyeonu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named 현우 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyeonu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,806 people named Hyun in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyeonu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyeonu is the 40th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hyeonu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyeonuThe 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, “Hyeonu” — the 40th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.