Myong
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/miɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myong is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 103K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 3.2Kas 명화
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 846
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 Myong 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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 846 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
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 명화 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
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)Myong 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #59 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 846 | 2 | Myong | 30 |
| KR South Korea | #644 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 29K | 명화 | 72 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Myong | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,236 | 1 in 103K | 2.8K | Myong | 190 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Myong | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Myong | 6 |
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; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; 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)- Jo Myong-rokb. 1928KPNorth Korean military commander (1928-2010)
- Myong J. Jounb. 1971USAmerican lawyer and jurist
- Gong Myoungb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and singer
- Myung Hwan YunUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 426 | #5,342 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Myong?
- A machine transcription gives /miɔŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Myong a male or female name?
- Myong is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Myong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Myong in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled myong.
- How common is the name Myong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,236 people named Myong in 2020, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Myong compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Myong is the 59th most common given name of 2,746 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/myongThe 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, “Myong” — the 59th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.