Ún
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: obsolete form of un
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ún is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 249K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 250K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
1,329 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
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)younger sibling
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ún is read
(measured from records)Ún is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish37%
obsolete form of un
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese35%
younger sibling
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Lao15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ún in Lao.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ún 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,329 | 1 in 250K | 1K | — | 53 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 925K | — | Ún | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 41 | 1 in 249K | 41 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | Ún | 22 |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 27M | 36 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 5 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,329 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ún is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, one (impersonal pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yun Yeong-ryeolb. 1854not in their usual nameKorean politician (1854-1939)
- Wan Chi-keungb. 1956CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer and actor (1956-2010)
- Li Yinb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director
- Yin Lib. 1962CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Yoon Sang-hob. 1968KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television director
- Terence Yinb. 1975CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American Hong Kong male actor
- Ivy Yinb. 1978TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Yin Hongbob. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Yin Xiaoyanb. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese karateka (1993-)
- Yin Xinot in their usual nameLegendary figure of Zhou China
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
- Where does the name Ún come from?
- younger sibling Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ún a male or female name?
- Ún 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.
- What does the name Ún mean?
- In Spanish, obsolete form of un
- In which country does Ún have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ún, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ún most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ún is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ún?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,329 people named Ún in 2020, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ún?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%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, “Ún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.