Yún
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 云
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yún is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 44K(measured from records)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 358K
- SESweden1 in 40K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
7,480 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yun in US United States, TW Taiwan, HK Hong Kong.
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(measured from records)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 云
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yún 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.
7,480 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Yun Zhongguanb. 1672Qing dynasty person CBDB = 72242
- Yun Maoqib. 1791Qing dynasty person CBDB = 72243 (1791–1849)
- Yun Shub. 1873Republic of China person CBDB = 72241
- Qu Yunb. 1978CNswimmer
- James Yunb. 1981USAmerican professional wrestler
- Yun QiMing dynasty eunuch CBDB = 131276
- Yun MaojiQing dynasty politician
- Yun QianYuan dynasty person CBDB = 108974
- Yun ZonglongYuan dynasty person CBDB = 108975
- Yun Gongperson, CBDB = 98694
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yún mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 云 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Yún have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.5 thousand people named Yún, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yun.
- Where is Yún most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yún is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yún?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,480 people named Yún in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Yún compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yún is the 130th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%BAnThe 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, “Yún” — the 130th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.