Hwangbo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Huangfu
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/wæŋboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hwangbo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 263K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 677K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Huangfu.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hwangbo 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 | #278 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 263K | 9.9K | Hwangbo | 54 |
| US United States | — | 195 | 1 in 1.7M | 230 | Hwangbo | 88 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 983K | — | Hwangbo | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Hwangbo | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Hwangbo | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Hwangbo | 4 |
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 surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the japanese-surnames-hadamitzky-1998 register. 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)- Sinjeongb. 903KPnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Goryeo
- Hwangbo Inb. 1387politician
- Taeg Keun Whangbob. 1960KRnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Hwangbo Seung-heeb. 1976KRSouth Korean politician
- Queen Daemoknot in their usual namePrincesse of Koryo
- Young HwangboKRresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 9.9K | #87 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 230 | #87,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 195 | #93,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 133 | #120,330 |
| JP Japan | Japanese, Chinese, Korean Surnames (Hadamitzky, 1998) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hwangbo mean, and where does it come from?
- Two-character Korean surname; Chinese equivalent Huangfu. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Hwangbo?
- A machine transcription gives /wæŋboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hwangbo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 197 people named Hwangbo in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hwangbo.
- How common is the name Hwangbo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 195 people named Hwangbo in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Hwangbo compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hwangbo is the 278th most common surname of 14,133 surnames 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/hwangboThe 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, “Hwangbo” — the 278th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.