문
surname · Korean · Hangul script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
문 is a surname, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Korean and , written in the Hangul script. Recorded meaning: door.
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 22◐
- KRSouth Korea1 in 112
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈644K ●
- #294 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 475 ●
- 1 in 112 ◐
across 13 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
2.6M records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 9 more, Man in AR Argentina, HK Hong Kong, MX Mexico, Muñ in CR Costa Rica, PE Peru and Maina in NG Nigeria, BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
door
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #24 | 464,047 | 256K rec. | 1 in 112 | 477K | 문 | 126 |
| US United States | #303 | 83,510 | 771K rec. | 1 in 4K | 84K | Mann | 475 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #5 | 75,287 | 19 rec. | — | 14K | Mane | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | #260 | 75,177 | 63K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 212 |
| MY Malaysia | #129 | 31,832 | 52K rec. | — | — | Mun | 102 |
| AU Australia | #244 | 30,338 | 32K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 189 |
| DE Germany | #231 | 28,056 | 26K rec. | — | 1 | Mann | 176 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 27,421△ | 191 rec. | 1 in 186 | 27K | Muñ | 15 |
| CA Canada | #243 | 22,931 | 22K rec. | — | 6 | Mann | 175 |
| ES Spain | — | 21,695△ | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Manu | 70 |
| PE Peru | — | 16,392 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Muñ | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 15,742△ | 79 rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | — | 14 |
Roughly 464K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 112). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Korean1.4M100%
- 161%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 1,419,985 | 100% |
| 16 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources 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 2026-09-12 data build · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name 문?
- We estimate roughly 644 thousand people bear 문 (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does 문 have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 464 thousand people bear 문 in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 문.
- How common is 문 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 문 is the 24th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name 문 mean?
- Recorded meaning: door
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “문” — the 24th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.