GoWoon

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

GoWoon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 677K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 4.5M
  • CACanada≈1 in 9.7M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈77 people, est.

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 677K (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(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

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)

GoWoon 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.

Where GoWoon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea≈77 est.≈1 in 677K—GoWoon34
US United States≈21 est.≈1 in 16M—GoWoon36
DE Germany≈8 est.≈1 in 11M—GoWoon7
AU Australia≈6 est.≈1 in 4.5M—GoWoon6
CA Canada≈4 est.≈1 in 9.7M1GoWoon4

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: Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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-woon Jeonb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director

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.

Official registers attesting GoWoon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20241#2,319

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is GoWoon a male or female name?
GoWoon 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 GoWoon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 people named GoWoon in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled GoWoon.
How common is the name GoWoon?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 people in South Korea have GoWoon as their first given name, about 1 in 677 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gowoon

The 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, “GoWoon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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