Hyeonsug
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hyeonsug is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 636as 현숙(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 517Kas Hyunsook
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 39Kas Hyunsook
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 Hyeonsug 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)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 636 (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 named 현숙, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 현숙
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hyunsook in US United States, MY Malaysia, NL Netherlands and 1 more and 현숙 in KR South Korea.
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)
Hyeonsug 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 | #80 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | — | 현숙 | 64 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 643as Hyunsook | 1 in 517K | 643 | Hyunsook | 77 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Hyunsook | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Hyunsook | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Hyunsook | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 1 |
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; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Hyeonsug a male or female name?
- Hyeonsug 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 Hyeonsug have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named 현숙 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyeonsug?
- In the United States, the national register counted 643 people named Hyunsook in 2020, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyeonsug compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyeonsug is the 80th 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/hyeonsugThe 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, “Hyeonsug” — the 80th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.