Jin-Yu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jin-Yu is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 510Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 570K
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 Jin-Yu 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jinyu in US United States, CN China, JP Japan and 3 more.
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)Jin-Yu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Jinyu | 71 |
| US United States | 584 | 1 in 570K | 399 | Jinyu | 116 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Jin-Yu | 10 |
| JP Japan | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 682K | — | Jinyu | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Jinyu | 7 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Jinyu | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Jinyu | 14 |
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. 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 JinyuKRSouth Korean film director
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jin-Yu a male or female name?
- Jin-Yu 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Jin-Yu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 308 thousand people named Jin-Yu in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jinyu. After it come United States, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jin-Yu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Jin-Yu in 2020, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jin-Yu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jin-yuThe 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, “Jin-Yu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.