Minjung
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Minjung 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 33rd most common given name. Minjung is also written 민정 in Korean (Hangul).
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 482K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 530Kfew records
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 Minjung 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
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 767 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named 민정, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Minjung in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 민정 in KR South Korea, 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)Minjung 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 | #33 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 316 | 441 | 민정 | 116 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Minjung | 7 |
| US United States | — | 690 | 1 in 482K | 680 | Minjung | 101 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 471K | — | Minjung | 1 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | 민정 | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Minjung | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Minjung is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, In South Korea, peasants or working-class people.
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.
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Minjung a male or female name?
- Minjung is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Minjung?
- Mondonomo estimates about 164 thousand people named 민정 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come North Korea, United States, Pakistan and Macao; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Minjung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 690 people named Minjung in 2020, about 1 in 482 thousand residents.
- How common is Minjung compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Minjung is the 33rd 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/minjungThe 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, “Minjung” — ranked 96th in South Korea (Supreme Court). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.