Bongjae
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bongjae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 7.3Kas 봉주(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 168Kas Bong
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 39Kas Bongjoo
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 Bongjae 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)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 named 봉주, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 봉주
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bong in US United States, KP North Korea and 봉 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bongjae 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 | #540 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 13K | 봉 | 121 |
| US United States | — | 1,984as Bong | 1 in 168K | 1.3K | Bong | 111 |
| KP North Korea | #235 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Bong | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29as Bong | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1as Bong | 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Go Bong-jaeb. 1993KRSouth Korean baseball player
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 Bongjae a male or female name?
- Bongjae is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bongjae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named 봉주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bongjae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,984 people named Bong in 2020, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Bongjae compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Bongjae is the 540th 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/bongjaeThe 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, “Bongjae” — the 540th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.