Namchun

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Namchun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States≈1 in 137M(inferred from the name graph)
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 110Kas 남천

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Namchun 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)

≈470 named 남천, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 137M (inferred from the name graph)

United States, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NamchunLatin(measured from records)
남춘Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 남춘 in KR South 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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Namchun 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.

Where Namchun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea≈470 est.≈1 in 110K남춘15
US United States≈2 est.≈1 in 137MNamchun3

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Namchun is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written นำชัน, นำชุน, นำชื่น, น้ำชื่น, นำชิน

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Nam June Paik, b. 1932Park Nam-choon, b. 1958Kim Nam-chun, b. 1989Heo Nam-jun, b. 1993Rap Monster, b. 1994
  • Nam June Paikb. 1932USnot in their usual nameAmerican video art pioneer (1932–2006)
  • Park Nam-choonb. 1958KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician (born 1958)
  • Kim Nam-chunb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Heo Nam-junb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1993-)
  • Rap Monsterb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and leader of the boy band BTS

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Namchun under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Namchun a male or female name?
Namchun 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 Namchun have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 470 people named 남천 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Namchun?
Mondonomo estimates about 470 people in South Korea have 남천 as their first given name, about 1 in 110 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Namchun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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