Jinju
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒindʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jinju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.8Kas 진주
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 16K
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 Jinju 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
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named 진주, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 진주 in KR South Korea, 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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jinju 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 | #495 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | 진주 | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Jinju | 30 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jinju | 8 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 208 | Jinju | 70 |
| MO Macao | #252 | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | 진주 | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Lee Jin-joob. 1952KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comics artist
- Hong Jin-joob. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professional golfer
- JinJoo Leeb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean guitarist
- Park Jin-joob. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Park Jin-joob. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comedian
- Hyun Jin-jub. 2005KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean gymnast
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 208 | #35,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #35,338 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Jinju?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒindʒu/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Jinju a male or female name?
- Jinju 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 Jinju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named 진주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jinju?
- In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Jinju in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Jinju compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jinju is the 495th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jinju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinjuThe 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, “Jinju” — the 495th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.