Namsuk

given name · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.5Kas 남숙(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 10Mas Namsook
  • CACanada≈1 in 11Mas Namsook

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 Namsuk 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)

≈8,000 named 남숙, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est., as 남숙

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NamsukLatin(measured from records)
남숙Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Namsook in US United States, CA Canada and 남숙 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)

Namsuk 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 Namsuk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea≈8,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K남숙36
US United States≈32 est.≈1 in 10MNamsook19
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 11MNamsook5

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)

Namsuk is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written นามสุข, นามสุขี, Namsukee, Namsukhee, น่ามสุข

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia

    Also written Nam-Suk

12 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)

  • Hwang Nam-sookb. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean table tennis player
  • Moon Nam-sookb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor

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 Namsuk 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 Namsuk a male or female name?
Namsuk 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 Namsuk have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named 남숙 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Namsuk?
Mondonomo estimates about 8,000 people in South Korea have 남숙 as their first given name, about 1 in 6.5 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, “Namsuk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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