Pyon
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pyon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Korean 변 (byeon). Pyon is also written 피온 in Korean (Hangul).
- JPJapan≈1 in 220Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 230Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 590Kfew 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 Pyon 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, 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
Pyon in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
(measured from records)Borrowed from Korean 변 (byeon).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pyon is found
(measured from records)Pyon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #331 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Pyon | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,822as Peon | 1 in 27K | 1.8K | Pyon | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 696as Peon | 1 in 65K | 696 | — | — |
| JP Japan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Pyon | 11 |
| US United States | — | 536 | 1 in 621K | 536 | Pyon | 146 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 155as Peon | 1 in 22K | 155 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Byeon Hee-bongb. 1942KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1942–2023)
- Byeon Woo-seokb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model and actor
- Byun Baek-hyunb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pyon mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Korean 변 (byeon). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pyon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Pyon in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pyon. After it come Spain, Argentina, Japan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pyon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 536 people named Pyon in 2010, about 1 in 621 thousand residents.
- How common is Pyon compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Pyon is the 331st most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pyon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyonThe 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, “Pyon” — the 331st most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.