Youn
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈjən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
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).
- 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)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Youn | 3 |
| US United States | 867 | 1 in 384K | 2.1K | Youn | 257 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Youn | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Youn | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Youn | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 132 | 1 in 77K | 132 | — | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 5 | Youn | 6 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,208 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #98,514 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #64,385 |
| US United States | wru 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.
- How do you pronounce Youn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjən/ (IPA) for English.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/younThe 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, “Youn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.