U-Min

surname · Latin script

U-Min is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.

  • USUnited States≈1 in 4.1Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia≈1 in 380M
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 430Kfew records

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈83 people, est.

Record sources
58 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 429K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Umin in US United States, MY Malaysia, TH Thailand and 2 more.

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname U-Min is found

(measured from records)

U-Min 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 U-Min is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia≈83 est.≈1 in 429K—Umin12
US United States≈82 est.≈1 in 4.1MlistedUmin58
CA Canada≈18 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Umin9
TH Thailand≈11 est.≈1 in 6.6M—Umin17
SG Singapore≈5 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Umin2

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)

U-Min is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Korean given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written 우민, Woomin, 엄인, Woo-Min, Umin

2 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)
1960198020002020Byun Woo-min, b. 1965Lee Woo-min, b. 1982Kim Woo-min, b. 2001
  • Byun Woo-minb. 1965KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film actor and singer
  • Lee Woo-minb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
  • Kim Woo-minb. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean swimmer

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 U-Min 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

Which countries have the most people with the surname U-Min?
Mondonomo estimates about 83 people named U-Min in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled umin. After it come United States, Canada, Thailand and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name U-Min?
Mondonomo estimates about 83 people in Malaysia have U-Min as their first surname, about 1 in 429 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, “U-Min”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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