Pyeong

given name · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 626Kas Pyong(measured from records)
  • KPNorth Korea≈1 in 4.4Kas Pyong
  • AOAngola≈1 in 42Kas 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)

≈5,800 named Pyong, est.

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

North Korea, est., as Pyong

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PyongLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pyong in US United States, KP North Korea, AO Angola 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.

Where Pyeong is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KP North Korea#324≈5,800 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Pyong14
CN China—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Pyong6
PK Pakistan—≈940 est.≈1 in 248K—Pyong1
AO Angola—≈770 est.≈1 in 42K—Pyong1
US United States—531as Pyong1 in 626K267Pyong104
KR South Korea—≈450 est.≈1 in 115K515평36
AT Austria—≈34 est.≈1 in 259K—Pyong1

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)

190019502000Cheon Byung-kyu, b. 1918Chung Byung-won, b. 1963Janice Min, b. 1969Ahn Byeong-woong, b. 1999Pyong Woo Park, b. 2000

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

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

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.
In which country does Pyeong have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Pyong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
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.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyeong

The 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 2026-10-10.

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