Geum
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Geum is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 2Kas 금(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 669Kas Kum
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 78K
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 Geum 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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
25,472 named 금, 2015
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 금 in KR South Korea and Kum in KP North 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(measured from records)
Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geum 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 | #76 | 25,472as 금 | 1 in 2K | 26K | 금 | 58 |
| US United States | — | 497as Kum | 1 in 669K | 1.6K | Geum | 80 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Kum | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 245as Kum | 1 in 864K | 245 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 34as Kum | 1 in 62K | 34 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 24as Kum | 1 in 488K | 24 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19as Kum | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | — |
25,472 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Geum 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 Latvian, Bitenes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yeongjo of Joseonb. 1694KRnot in their usual name21st King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- Lee Geum-minb. 1994KRSouth Korean football 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Geum mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Geum a male or female name?
- Geum 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 Geum have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named 금, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Geum?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 25,472 people named 금 in 2015, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Geum compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Geum is the 76th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Geum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geumThe 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, “Geum” — the 76th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.