Hyok
given name · Korean · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hyok is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. In North Korea it is the 86th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Korean and English, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M◐
- KPNorth Korea1 in 556
- KRSouth Korea1 in 244K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9 ●
- Sources
- 71 ●
- 1 in 4.3M ◐
across 1 country
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,421 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Hyok | 71 |
| KR South Korea | — | 259 | 106 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 44 |
| KP North Korea | #86 | 239 | 132 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 26 |
| CN China | — | 53 | 0 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 29 | 27 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 27 | 25 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 24 | 24 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 18 | 11 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 7 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 10 | 7 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 9 | — | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | 6 | 7 rec. | — | — | Hyok | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Korean1.9K48%
- English1.4K34%
- 2737%
- Spanish1353%
- Polish291%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 1,914 | 48% |
| English | 1,351 | 34% |
| 273 | 7% | |
| Spanish | 135 | 3% |
| Polish | 29 | 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●
- Hyuk Byunb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director
- Kim Hyeokb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Yun Hyukb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Hyuk Shinb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean songwriter and record producer
- Hyuk Leeb. 2000not in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4271-7205)
- Jin HyukKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television director
- Hyuk Ohnot 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 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9 | #3,834 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #23,321 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2010 | 1 | #40,013 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hyok?
- We estimate roughly 9 people bear Hyok (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Hyok have the most bearers?
- Hyok is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled hyok.
- How common is Hyok compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Hyok is the 86th most common given name of 2,373 given names recorded there.
- Is Hyok a male or female name?
- Hyok 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.
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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, “Hyok” — the 86th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.