Kyung
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkjəŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kyung is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 46K
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.4Kas 경
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 Kyung 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 named Kyong, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 경 in KR South Korea and Kyong in KP North 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kyung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #74 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 983 | 1 | Kyong | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Kyung | 3 |
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Kyung | 24 |
| AO Angola | #183 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Kyung | 1 |
| KR South Korea | #657 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 18K | 경 | 198 |
| US United States | — | 7,218 | 1 in 46K | 5.2K | Kyung | 274 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Kyung | 68 |
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; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kyung is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wuu, Zoroaster
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Elements
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Ancient
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Repass
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Tendon
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Catty
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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)
- K. W. Leeb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist
- Kyung YangPEPeruvian taekwondoin
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #3,065 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Kyung?
- In the etymology graph, Gyeong is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kyung?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkjəŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kyung a male or female name?
- Kyung 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 Kyung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Kyong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kyung?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,218 people named Kyung in 2020, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Kyung compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Kyung is the 74th most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kyung?
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/kyungThe 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, “Kyung” — the 74th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.