Minsu
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Minsu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. Minsu is also written 민수 in Korean (Hangul).
- PLPoland1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 700as 민수
- USUnited States1 in 855Kas Minsoo
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 Minsu 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
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named 민수, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Minsu in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Minsoo in US United States, CA Canada, MY Malaysia and 1 more and 민수 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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Minsu 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 | #68 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 701 | 347 | 민수 | 103 |
| US United States | — | 389as Minsoo | 1 in 855K | 316 | Minsoo | 126 |
| IN India | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | 1 | Minsu | 4 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | 민수 | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Minsoo | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Minsoo | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 923K | — | Minsoo | 8 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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-soob. 1962KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Jo Min-sub. 1965KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kang Min-soob. 1986KRnot 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).
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Minsu a male or female name?
- Minsu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Minsu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named 민수 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, India, Macao and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Minsu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13 people named Minsu in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Minsu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Minsu is the 68th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Minsu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minsuThe 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, “Minsu” — ranked 95th in South Korea (Supreme Court). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.