Jeong
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Korean, a more recent transliteration of Chung
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/t͡ɕʌ̹ŋɡu/(recorded in a dictionary) Korean · from Wiktionary · read from 정구
Jeong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 81few records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 51Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 54Kfew records
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 Jeong 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 (measured from records)
- #351 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 81 (inferred from the name graph)
2,407,601 named 정, 2015
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled 정 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)A surname from Korean, a more recent transliteration of Chung.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jeong is read
(measured from records)Jeong is one spelling over 2 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.
- Korean64%
variant of Chong.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English22%
A surname from Korean, a more recent transliteration of Chung.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Jeong 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 | #5 | 2,407,601as 정 | 1 in 22 | 2.4M | 정 | 221 |
| KP North Korea | #71 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 81 | 1 | Jeong | 32 |
| US United States | — | 5,404 | 1 in 62K | 6.9K | Jeong | 280 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Jeong | 42 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Jeong | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Jeong | 32 |
2,407,601 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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 — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)- Chung Ju-yungb. 1915KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman (1915–2001)
- Myung-whun Chungb. 1953KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist and conductor
- Ken Jeongb. 1969USSouth Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
- Jamie Chungb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Jung Yu-mib. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1983)
- Jong Tae-seb. 1984KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean association football player
- Jung So-minb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- J-Hopeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, dancer, songwriter, and record producer
- Jung Ho-yeonb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model and actress
- Krystal Jungb. 1994USnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-American singer, actress and model
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #7,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 740 | #7,144 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Jeong mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Korean, a more recent transliteration of Chung. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jeong?
- In the etymology graph, Jung, Trinh and Jong are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jeong?
- In Korean /t͡ɕʌ̹ŋɡu/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Jeong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,404 people named Jeong in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Jeong compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jeong is the 5th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Jeong have the most bearers?
- In South Korea, the national register counted about 2.4 million people named 정, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Jeong?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeongThe 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, “Jeong” — the 5th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.