Youn

given name · Latin script

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

Youn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Korean 윤(尹) (Yun).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 384K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 50K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 61K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,800 people, est.

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Korean 윤(尹) (Yun).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Youn 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 Youn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈3,800 est.≈1 in 61K—Youn3
US United States8671 in 384K2.1KYoun257
NL Netherlands≈350 est.≈1 in 50K—Youn7
MY Malaysia≈200 est.≈1 in 162K—Youn18
CA Canada≈180 est.≈1 in 207K—Youn53
SE Sweden1321 in 77K132—6
BE Belgium≈71 est.≈1 in 165K5Youn6

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Youn is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Korean surname51 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Korean, English, Chinese

    Also written 윤, Yun, Yuen, Yu-En, 요운

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ÿoún, Yőüñ

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Yoùn, Yôûn, Yóún, Ÿôùn, Yòūn

  • Khmer given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Cambodia, Algeria

    Also written Ýóún, Yöún

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Youñ

47 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)

5001000150020002500Yeon Gaesomun, b. 603Yun Chi-ho, b. 1864Yun Bo-seon, b. 1897Yun Dong-ju, b. 1917Youn Yuh-jung, b. 1947Yoon Suk-yeol, b. 1960Yeon Sang-ho, b. 1978Yun Hyon-seok, b. 1984Yun Suk-young, b. 1990Yoon Chan-yeong, b. 2001
  • Yeon Gaesomunb. 603not in their usual nameGoguryeo military dictator (603–666)
  • Yun Chi-hob. 1864KRnot in their usual nameKorean independence activist (1864-1945)
  • Yun Bo-seonb. 1897KRnot in their usual name2nd President of South Korea (1897-1990)
  • Yun Dong-jub. 1917CNnot in their usual nameKorean poet (1917–1945)
  • Youn Yuh-jungb. 1947KRSouth Korean actress
  • Yoon Suk-yeolb. 1960KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea from 2022 to 2025
  • Yeon Sang-hob. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter
  • Yun Hyon-seokb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist
  • Yun Suk-youngb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Yoon Chan-yeongb. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor

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 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Youn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,614
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,727
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,208
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#98,514
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3#64,385
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Youn mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Korean 윤(尹) (Yun). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Youn a male or female name?
Youn 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 Youn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Youn in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled youn.
How common is the name Youn?
In the United States, the national register counted 867 people named Youn in 2020, about 1 in 384 thousand residents.

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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, “Youn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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