Purine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Purine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351Kas Purin(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 14Mas 푸린
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 Purine 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
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4 named 푸린, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, as Purin
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 푸린 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(measured from records)
Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Purine 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 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | 푸린 | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 1as Purin | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 174 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 118 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | — | 24 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Purine mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines)… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Purine a male or female name?
- Purine 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 Purine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people named 푸린 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Purine most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Purine itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Iceland's: the national register counts about 1 in 351 thousand people named Purin.
- How common is the name Purine?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Purin in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Purine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/purineThe 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, “Purine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.