Hyun
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hyun 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Korean 현 (hyeon), from Chinese 玄 (xuán).
- CACanada≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 57K
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 665as 현우
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 Hyun 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 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named 현우, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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(measured from records)
- Korean현hyeon(measured from records)
- Chinese玄xuán(measured from records)
Borrowed from Korean 현 (hyeon), from Chinese 玄 (xuán).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyun 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 | — | 5,806 | 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 | — | 346 | 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)
- Choe Hyonb. 1907KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean general (1907-1982)
- Joo Hyunb. 1941KRactor
- Janghyunb. 1956KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer (1956-1990)
- Cho Hyunb. 1957KRSouth Korean diplomat and politician
- Yoon Hyunb. 1966KRSouth Korean judoka
- Na Hyunb. 1970KRSouth Korean screenwriter and film director
- Yoo Hyunb. 1984KRSouth Korean association football player
- Na Hyunb. 1995KRSouth Korean Go player
- Chung Hyeonb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professional tennis player
- Kim Hyun-gyeomb. 2006KRSouth Korean figure skater
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)
Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #3,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #3,552 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 346 | #3,565 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2003 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Hyun mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Korean 현 (hyeon), from Chinese 玄 (xuán). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Is Hyun a male or female name?
- Hyun 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 Hyun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named 현우 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Hyun?
- In the etymology graph, Hyeon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hyun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,806 people named Hyun in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyun compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyun is the 40th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyunThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hyun” — the 40th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.