Kwoon

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kwoon is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong
  • SGSingapore
  • MYMalaysia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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)

1960198020002020Kwon Hae-hyo, b. 1965Kwon Sang-woo, b. 1976Kwon Yul, b. 1982BoA, b. 1986G-Dragon, b. 1988Kwon Yuri, b. 1989Kwon Mina, b. 1993Kwon So-hyun, b. 1994Hoshi, b. 1996Kwon Hyeok-kyu, b. 2001
  • Kwon Hae-hyob. 1965KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and activist
  • Kwon Sang-woob. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kwon Yulb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • BoAb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, actress and songwriter
  • G-Dragonb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
  • Kwon Yurib. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress (born 1989)
  • Kwon Minab. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Kwon So-hyunb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress, 1994
  • Hoshib. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Kwon Hyeok-kyub. 2001KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kwoon a male or female name?
Kwoon 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 Kwoon have the most bearers?
Kwoon is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Kwoon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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