Min-Yong
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Min-Yong is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.8M
- ESSpain≈1 in 34M
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-Yong 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
1,366 named Mignon, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Minyong in US United States, 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-Yong 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,366as Mignon | 1 in 244K | 1.3K | Minyong | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | 590as Mignon | 1 in 29K | 578 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 56as Mignon | 1 in 13K | 56 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Minyong | 43 |
| SE Sweden | 48as Mignon | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | — |
1,366 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mignon. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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-yongb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Choi Min-yongb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean marathon runner
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-Yong a male or female name?
- Min-Yong 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Min-Yong?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Mignon, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Netherlands, Guyana, South Korea and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Min-Yong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,366 people named Mignon in 2020, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
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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-yongThe 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-Yong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.