Min-Joo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Min-Joo is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.3Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 770as 민주
- AUAustralia≈1 in 790Kfew recordsas Minju
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 Min-Joo 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
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 named 민주, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Minju in US United States, KP North Korea, AT Austria, 민주 in KR South Korea, Minj in IN India and Min-Ju 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Min-Joo 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 | #117 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 772 | 516 | 민주 | 106 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Minju | 6 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 963K | 40K | Minj | 8 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Min-Ju | 8 |
| US United States | — | 339as Minju | 1 in 981K | 314 | Minju | 97 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | 미주 | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 618K | — | Minjoo | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Minju | 4 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 Min-jub. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1979
- Kim Min-joob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean news anchor
- Seo Min-jub. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Joob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Yeo Min-joob. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Min-jub. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Jeon Minjub. 1994KRSouth Korean singer
- Kim Min-jub. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born June 18, 1997)
- Kim Min-jub. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, born 2001
- Minjub. 2004KRSouth Korean singer (born 2004)
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Min-Joo a male or female name?
- Min-Joo 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.
- In which country does Min-Joo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named 민주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Min-Joo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Minju in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
- How common is Min-Joo compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Min-Joo is the 117th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/min-jooThe 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, “Min-Joo” — the 117th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.