Minje
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Minje is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.1Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 17Mfew records
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Minje 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 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Minje | 4 |
| KR South Korea | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Minje | 31 |
| DE Germany | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Minje | 18 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Minje | 35 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Minje | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Minje | 12 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 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 given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Minje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In stq, to love
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, minyan
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)- Min-Jea Tahkb. 1954KRnot in their usual namePh. D. University of Texas at Austin 1986
- Kim Min-jeb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Minje a male or female name?
- Minje is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Minje?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 people named Minje in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minje. After it come South Korea, Germany, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Minje?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Minje in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Minje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minjeThe 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, “Minje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.