Shung
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃʊŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shung is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 617as 승현(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Sunghyun
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
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 Shung 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)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 named 승현, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sunghyun in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 1 more and 승현 in KR South Korea, MO Macao.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shung 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 | #12 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 617 | 416 | 승현 | 102 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 311as Sunghyun | 1 in 1.1M | 254 | Sunghyun | 83 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | 승현 | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Sunghyun | 15 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sunghyun | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Sunghyun | 4 |
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: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 163 | #114,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 131 | #121,780 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Shung?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʊŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shung a male or female name?
- Shung is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Shung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named 승현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shung most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shung is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shung?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Shung, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Shung compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Shung is the 12th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shungThe 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, “Shung” — the 12th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.