Jiseon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jiseon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Jiseon is also written 지연 in Korean (Hangul).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 280as 지연(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 360Kas Jiyeon
- AUAustralia≈1 in 420Kfew recordsas Jiyeon
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 Jiseon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 named 지연, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 지연
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jiseon in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jiyeon in US United States, AU Australia, PK Pakistan, Jiyoon in VN Vietnam, KP North Korea, 지연 in KR South Korea and 지윤 in MO Macao.
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)Jiseon 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 | #1 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | 481 | 지연 | 111 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Jiyoon | 8 |
| US United States | — | 925as Jiyeon | 1 in 360K | 921 | Jiyeon | 155 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 754K | 1 | Jiyeon | 3 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Jiyoon | 8 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | 지윤 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Jiyeon | 34 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)- Park Ji-sunb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comedian and actress
- Yoon Son-gab. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Ji-sunb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean curler
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 Jiseon a male or female name?
- Jiseon is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Jiseon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 188 thousand people named 지연 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come North Korea, United States, Pakistan and Vietnam; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jiseon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 925 people named Jiyeon in 2020, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.
- How common is Jiseon compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jiseon is the most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jiseon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jiseonThe 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, “Jiseon” — ranked 70th in South Korea (Supreme Court). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.