Yowon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yowon is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Yowon is also written 요원 in Korean (Hangul).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 180Kfew recordsas 요원(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 510Mas Youwon
- USUnited States≈1 in 72Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yowon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72M (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 named 요원, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Yowon in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled 요원 in KR South Korea and Yoowon in US United States.
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 in the world
(measured from records)Yowon 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 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | 요원 | 15 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 72M | listed | Yoowon | 13 |
| IN India | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 511M | 2 | — | 1 |
| GF French Guiana | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| YT Mayotte | — | — | 5 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yowon a male or female name?
- Yowon is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Yowon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 291 people named 요원 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yowon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 290 people in South Korea have 요원 as their first given name, about 1 in 178 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Yowon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yowonThe 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, “Yowon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.