Yǒng
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 俑
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yǒng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 22K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.3Kas 용주
- SESweden1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yǒng itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named 용주, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yong in US United States, KP North Korea and 용주 in KR South Korea.
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 俑
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yǒng 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 | #78 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 17K | 용주 | 218 |
| US United States | — | 15,448 | 1 in 22K | 8.8K | Yong | 239 |
| KP North Korea | #11 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Yong | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 391 | 1 in 128K | 400 | — | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 263 | 1 in 39K | 263 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 48 | 1 in 122K | 40 | — | — |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)- Liu Yongb. 987CNSong dynasty poet (987–1053)
- Ying Yongb. 1957CNChinese politician
- Hou Yongb. 1960CNChinese cinematographer and film director
- Zhang Yongzhenb. 1965CNnot in their usual nameChinese virologist
- Li Yongb. 1968CNChinese television host (1968-2018)
- Yin Yongb. 1969CNMayor of Beijing
- He Yongb. 1969CNChinese singer/musician
- Daniel Zhangb. 1972CNnot in their usual nameChinese businessman
- Liu Yongb. 1975CNChinese badminton player
- Yang Yung-Weib. 1997TWnot in their usual nameTaiwan judoka (1997-)
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 Yǒng mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 俑 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yǒng a male or female name?
- Yǒng is a male 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.
- In which country does Yǒng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named 용주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yǒng most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yǒng is densest in the United States — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yǒng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,448 people named Yǒng in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Yǒng compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Yǒng is the 78th most common given name of 67,037 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%C7%92ngThe 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, “Yǒng” — the 78th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.