Pyeong
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pyeong is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 130Kfew recordsas 평(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 626Kas Pyong
- CACanada≈1 in 640Kfew recordsas Pyong
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 Pyeong 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 named Pyong, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pyeong in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pyong in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and 평 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)Pyeong 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 | #324 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 662 | — | Pyong | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Pyong | 1 |
| US United States | — | 531as Pyong | 1 in 626K | 267 | Pyong | 104 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 515 | 평 | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Pyong | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 644K | — | Pyong | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Pyong | 9 |
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; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants. 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)- Cheon Byung-kyub. 1918KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean diplomat (1918-1993)
- Chung Byung-wonb. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean diplomat
- Janice Minb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, author
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 Pyeong a male or female name?
- Pyeong 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Pyeong?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Pyong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, United States, South Korea and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pyeong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 531 people named Pyong in 2020, about 1 in 626 thousand residents.
- How common is Pyeong compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Pyeong is the 324th most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pyeong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyeongThe 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, “Pyeong” — the 324th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.