Min-Woo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Min-Woo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 956K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 7.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, 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 Minwoo in KR South Korea, US United States, AU Australia and 4 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Min-Woo 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 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Minwoo | 5 |
| KR South Korea | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Minwoo | 101 |
| US United States | 348 | 1 in 956K | 330 | Minwoo | 110 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 641K | — | Minwoo | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Minwoo | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 716K | 1 | Minwoo | 27 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 673K | — | Minwoo | 3 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 Min-woob. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, 1976
- Lee Min-woob. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
- Seo Min-woob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer; member of 100%
- No Min-woob. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, singer, rapper and musician
- Park Min-woob. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Min-woob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Cho Min-woob. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Lee Min-woob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
- Minwoob. 1995KRSouth Korean singer
- Hwang Min-woob. 2005KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- Is Min-Woo a male or female name?
- Min-Woo 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 Min-Woo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Min-Woo in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minwoo.
- How common is the name Min-Woo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 348 people named Min-Woo in 2020, about 1 in 956 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/min-wooThe 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, “Min-Woo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.