Myeonghee
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Myeonghee 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 93rd most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 830as 명희(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 16Kas Myung
- USUnited States1 in 78Kas Myung
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 Myeonghee itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 830 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named 명희, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 명희
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Myung in US United States, NL Netherlands, AO Angola and 1 more and 명희 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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Myeonghee 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 | #93 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 830 | 29K | 명희 | 165 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Myung | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,256as Myung | 1 in 78K | 3.1K | Myung | 215 |
| AO Angola | #454 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Myung | 1 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 3 | — | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Myung | 10 |
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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Myeonghee a male or female name?
- Myeonghee 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 Myeonghee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named 명희 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Myeonghee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,256 people named Myung in 2020, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Myeonghee compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Myeonghee is the 93rd 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/myeongheeThe 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, “Myeonghee” — the 93rd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.