Haejin
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Haejin 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 2nd most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 260as 혜진(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 330Kas Hyejin
- AUAustralia≈1 in 340Kfew recordsas Hyejin
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 Haejin 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 263 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named 혜진, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 혜진
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hyejin in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more, 혜진 in KR South Korea and 희진 in MO Macao.
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)Haejin 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 | #2 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | 혜진 | 109 |
| KP North Korea | #528 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | — | Hyejin | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,008as Hyejin | 1 in 330K | 1K | Hyejin | 152 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Hyejin | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 681K | — | Hyejin | 30 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | 희진 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 340K | 1 | Hyejin | 37 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)- Kim Hae-jinb. 1960KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Cho Hae-jinb. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician
- Hae-Jin Leeb. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman
- Yoo Hai-jinb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Cho Hae-jinb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Park Hae-jinb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and model
- Yoon Hae-jinb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1989-)
- Hae Jin Jungb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Kim Hae-jinb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 280 | #28,942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #28,942 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Haejin a male or female name?
- Haejin is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Haejin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 197 thousand people named 혜진 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Haejin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,008 people named Hyejin in 2020, about 1 in 330 thousand residents.
- How common is Haejin compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Haejin is the 2nd 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/haejinThe 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, “Haejin” — the 2nd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.