형
surname · Hangul script
Meaning: older brother of a male
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
형 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.5Kas 형주(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 57Kas Hyun
- AOAngola≈1 in 15Kas Hyung
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 형 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named 형주, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 형주
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hyung in US United States, CA Canada, CN China and 1 more, 형주 in KR South Korea and Hyungwoo in SE Sweden.
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)
older brother of a male
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
형 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 | #190 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 92K | 형주 | 181 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Hyung | 22 |
| US United States | — | 5,806as Hyun | 1 in 57K | 3.6K | Hyung | 207 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hyung | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 1 | Hyung | 44 |
| SE Sweden | — | 346as Hyun | 1 in 29K | 346 | Hyungwoo | 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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 형 mean, and where does it come from?
- older brother of a male Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does 형 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named 형주 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name 형?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,806 people named Hyun in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is 형 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 형 is the 190th 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/%ED%98%95The 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, “형” — the 190th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.