Hujin
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hujin is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (faire) reculer.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 110Kfew recordsas 후진(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 230Mfew recordsas Hoojin
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hujin 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)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490 named 후진, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 후진
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 후진 in KR South Korea and Hoojin in US United States.
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)(faire) reculer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hujin 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 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 후진 | 14 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 231M | Hoojin | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | Hujin | 3 |
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.
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)Hujin 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 Breton, (faire) reculer
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hujin mean, and where does it come from?
- (faire) reculer Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Hujin a male or female name?
- Hujin 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 Hujin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 485 people named 후진 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hujin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 490 people in South Korea have 후진 as their first given name, about 1 in 107 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/hujinThe 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, “Hujin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.