Gwang
given name · Korean · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gwang is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Korea. In North Korea it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Korean and English, written in the Latin script.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 1.8K◐
- SGSingapore1 in 9.7K
- MYMalaysia1 in 14K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- Sources
- 208 ●
- 1 in 155K ◐
across 5 countries
90K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kwang in US United States, KR South Korea, MY Malaysia and 23 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | — | 7,294 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | KWang | 142 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 4,683 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | KWang | 52 |
| US United States | — | 2,153 | 68K rec. | 1 in 155K | 2.2K | KWang | 208 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,976 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | KWang | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,751 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | KWang | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,598 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | KWang | 39 |
| SG Singapore | #479 | 1,114 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | KWang | 77 |
| AR Argentina | — | 836 | 727 rec. | — | — | KWang | 15 |
| KP North Korea | #51 | 345 | 235 rec. | — | 1 | KWang | 39 |
| CN China | — | 336 | 74 rec. | — | — | KWang | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | 262 | 291 rec. | — | — | KWang | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 210 | 207 rec. | — | — | KWang | 41 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Korean2K55%
- English1.1K30%
- 1384%
- Spanish1123%
- Thai451%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 1,993 | 55% |
| English | 1,074 | 30% |
| 138 | 4% | |
| Spanish | 112 | 3% |
| Thai | 45 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Choe Kwangb. 1918KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean politician (1918－1997)
- Kwang-Young Leeb. 1946KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
- Jang Gwangb. 1952KRSouth Korean actor
- Gwang Ha Kimb. 1969KRresearcher
- Kwang-ryul ChoeKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean entomologist
- Kwang Chi Tingnot in their usual namebotanist
- Kwang Pyo KimKRnot 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #290 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gwang?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Gwang (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gwang have the most bearers?
- Gwang is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled KWang.
- How common is Gwang compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Gwang is the 51st most common given name of 2,373 given names recorded there.
- Is Gwang a male or female name?
- Gwang is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gwangThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Gwang” — the 51st most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.