Min-Shik
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Min-Shik is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Min-Shik is also written 민석 in Korean (Hangul).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.2Kas 민석(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6Mfew recordsas Minseok
- USUnited States1 in 2.1Mas Minsuk
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-Shik 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
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 named 민석, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 민석
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Min-Shik in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Minseok in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more and 민석 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
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)Min-Shik 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 | #114 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 373 | 민석 | 87 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Minseok | 8 |
| US United States | — | 159as Minsuk | 1 in 2.1M | 101 | Minseok | 87 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 636K | — | Minseok | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Minseok | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Minseok | 19 |
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. 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)- Choi Min-sikb. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Min-sikb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Min-sikb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
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 Min-Shik a male or female name?
- Min-Shik is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Min-Shik?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named 민석 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come North Korea, United States, Malaysia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Min-Shik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 159 people named Minsuk in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Min-Shik compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Min-Shik is the 114th 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-shikThe 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-Shik” — ranked 95th in South Korea (Supreme Court). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.