Minju
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. In Macao it is the 71st most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 981K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 979as 민주
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 12K
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 Minju 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
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 named 민주, 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 민주 in KR South Korea, Min-Ju in TW Taiwan and 미주 in 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minju 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 | #117 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 979 | 516 | 민주 | 106 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Minju | 6 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Minju | 9 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Min-Ju | 8 |
| US United States | — | 339 | 1 in 981K | 314 | Minju | 97 |
| MO Macao | #71 | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | 미주 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 541K | 1 | Minju | 26 |
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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; 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)
- Kim Min-jub. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1979
- Kim Min-joob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean news anchor
- Seo Min-jub. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Joob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Yeo Min-joob. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Min-jub. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Jeon Minjub. 1994KRSouth Korean singer
- Kim Min-jub. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born June 18, 1997)
- Kim Min-jub. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, born 2001
- Minjub. 2004KRSouth Korean singer (born 2004)
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Minju a male or female name?
- Minju 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 Minju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named 민주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Minju?
- In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Minju in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
- How common is Minju compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Minju is the 117th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minjuThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Minju” — the 117th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.