Hyeon
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
Hyeon 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, where it is the 62nd most common given name.
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 230K
- USUnited States1 in 970K
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 Hyeon 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
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named 주현, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled 현 in KR South Korea, Juhyeon in AU Australia and 주현 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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hyeon 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 | #62 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | 89K | 현 | 156 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 6 | — | 12 |
| US United States | — | 343 | 1 in 970K | 211 | Hyeon | 160 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 248K | 1 | Juhyeon | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Hyeon | 3 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | 주현 | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | — | 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.
Registers cited: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)- Choe Hyonb. 1907KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean general (1907-1982)
- Joo Hyunb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Janghyunb. 1956KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer (1956-1990)
- Cho Hyunb. 1957KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean diplomat and politician
- Yoon Hyunb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean judoka
- Na Hyunb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter and film director
- Yoo Hyunb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Na Hyunb. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Chung Hyeonb. 1996KRSouth Korean professional tennis player
- Kim Hyun-gyeomb. 2006KRnot 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #34 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 are other forms of the name Hyeon?
- In the etymology graph, Hyun is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Hyeon a male or female name?
- Hyeon is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Hyeon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named 주현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyeon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 343 people named Hyeon in 2020, about 1 in 970 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyeon compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyeon is the 62nd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hyeon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyeonThe 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, “Hyeon” — the 62nd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.