림
given name · Hangul script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
림 is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 73rd most common surname.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 15Mfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 22M
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 림 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
37,021 named Lim, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lim in US United States, KR South Korea, NL Netherlands.
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)림 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 | — | 37,021as Lim | 1 in 9K | 40K | Lim | 288 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,381as Lim | 1 in 89K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 531as Lim | 1 in 33K | 531 | Lim | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 449as Lim | 1 in 19K | 449 | — | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 340as Lim | 1 in 113K | 185 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 314as Lim | 1 in 18K | 314 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 192as Lim | 1 in 28K | 534 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 91as Lim | 1 in 8.2K | 91 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #73 | 47 | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | Lim | 233 |
37,021 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
- 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
- Is 림 a male or female name?
- 림 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.
- In which country does 림 have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Lim, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is 림 most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, 림 is densest in South Korea — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name 림?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 47 people named 림 in 2015, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is 림 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 림 is the 73rd most common surname of 14,133 surnames 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/%EB%A6%BCThe 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, “림” — the 73rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.