Myeong
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Myeong is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 14K
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
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 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:
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myeong 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Myeong | 9 |
| KR South Korea | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Myeong | 105 |
| US United States | 259 | 1 in 1.3M | 182 | Myeong | 97 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Myeong | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 562K | 1 | — | — |
| BO Bolivia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 852K | — | Myeong | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)
- Jo Myong-rokb. 1928KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean military commander (1928-2010)
- Myong J. Jounb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer and jurist
- Gong Myoungb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and singer
- Myung Hwan YunUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #55 |
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
- What are other forms of the name Myeong?
- In the etymology graph, Myung is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Myeong a male or female name?
- Myeong 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.
- In which country does Myeong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Myeong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myeong.
- How common is the name Myeong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 259 people named Myeong in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Myeong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myeongThe 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, “Myeong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.