Jun
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 4th most common given name.
- JPJapan≈1 in 606(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 861
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.2K
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 Jun 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 606 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 준호 in KR South Korea.
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)
, 2 ‘Obedient’; as a female case, possibly referring to the English name pJune (see main dictionary). Jun’ichi 3 ‘Obedience first’; ‘purity first’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jun is read(measured from records)
Jun is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English34%
A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Japanese16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jun in Japanese.
- Chinese15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jun in Chinese.
- Spanish8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jun in Spanish.
- Korean6.5%
nickname for a lively young man, juny (ultimately cognate with French Jeune and English Young).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Chong.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jun 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 | — | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 861 | — | Jun | 179 |
| JP Japan | #40 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 606 | — | Jun | 199 |
| KR South Korea | #4 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 554 | 1.1M | 준호 | 227 |
| PH Philippines | #370 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Jun | 124 |
| MY Malaysia | #180 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 875 | Jun | 90 |
| SG Singapore | #128 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Jun | 126 |
| ES Spain | — | 627 | 1 in 80K | 4.6K | Jun | 49 |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
, 2 ‘Obedient’; as a female case, possibly referring to the English name pJune (see main dictionary). Jun’ichi 3 ‘Obedience first’; ‘purity first’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Verdad
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Malay, June (sixth month of the Gregorian calendar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jun John Sakuraib. 1933JPAmerican physicist (1933-1982)
- Jun Fubukib. 1952JPJapanese actress (1952-)
- Jun Kunimurab. 1955JPJapanese actor
- Lei Junb. 1969CNChinese businessman, cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi
- Jun Fukuyamab. 1978JPJapanese voice actor
- Jun Kusanagib. 1978JPJapanese pornographic actress
- Jun Matsumotob. 1983JPJapanese singer, actor, radio host
- Kim Joonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
- Lee Joonb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, dancer, actor and model
- Jun Mizutanib. 1989JPJapanese table tennis 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 78 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 627 | #3,920 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 566 | #1,926 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 151 | #5,033 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Jun come from?
- , 2 ‘Obedient’; as a female case, possibly referring to the English name pJune (see main dictionary). Jun’ichi 3 ‘Obedience first’; ‘purity first’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Jun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Jun in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jun.
- How do you pronounce Jun?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jun mean?
- In English, A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.
- Is Jun a male or female name?
- Jun 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jun?
- In the etymology graph, Joon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Jun?
- In Spain, the national register counted 627 people named Jun, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Jun compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jun is the 4th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/junThe 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, “Jun” — the 4th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.