Kiju
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kiju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6Kas 기주(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 6.8M
- USUnited States≈1 in 11M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiju 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
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 named 기주, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, 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 기주 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)
Kiju 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 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | 기주 | 39 |
| US United States | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Kiju | 25 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Kiju | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Kiju | 2 |
| PL Poland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 2 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kiju is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, locative/vocative singular of kij
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, locative singular of kij
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, cheese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Li Ki-joob. 1926KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer (1926-1996)
- Kim Gi-jub. 1940KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1940-2001)
- Han Ki-joob. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Jin Ki-joob. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress and former journalist (born 1989)
- Park Ki-jub. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean field hockey player
- Gee Ju ChaeKRnot in their usual namePh.D. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2002
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 Kiju a male or female name?
- Kiju is a male 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 Kiju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named 기주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kiju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8,700 people in South Korea have 기주 as their first given name, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kiju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kijuThe 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, “Kiju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.