Kyong
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kyong is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Korea. In North Korea it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Korean, written in the Latin script.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 2.8K◐
- CACanada1 in 17K
- AUAustralia1 in 23K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.6K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 260 ●
- 1 in 40K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
286K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Kyung in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 17 more, 경 in KR South Korea and Кюнг in RU Russia.
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 | #699 | 36,672 | 22K rec. | — | 18K | 경 | 189 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,799 | 7K rec. | — | — | Kyung | 38 |
| US United States | — | 5,193 | 231K rec. | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Kyung | 260 |
| AU Australia | — | 5,147 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Kyung | 84 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,953 | 5.1K rec. | — | — | Kyung | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | 900 | 884 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 61 |
| IT Italy | — | 767 | 817 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | 756 | 756 rec. | — | — | Kyong | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 706 | 722 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | 654 | 657 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 8 |
| CN China | — | 637 | 182 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 22 |
| AO Angola | #124 | 466 | 626 rec. | — | — | Kyung | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English51K51%
- Korean31K31%
- 5.4K5%
- Spanish4.1K4%
- Portuguese8491%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 51,164 | 51% |
| Korean | 31,093 | 31% |
| 5,400 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 4,092 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 849 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 6 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1977 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 1947–1977. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jeongjong of Joseonb. 1357KPnot in their usual name2nd King of Joseon Dynasty (1357 - 1419)
- Kim Hang-kyungb. 1940KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean diplomat, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Consul General to New York
- Kyung Lahb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist
- Jin Kyeongb. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Hong Kyungb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kyung Seo Leenot in their usual namebotanist
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 18K | #77 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #4,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 641 | #4,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #7,209 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 15 | #7,910 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,079 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,464 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #1,792 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 10 | — |
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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kyong?
- We estimate roughly 5.6 thousand people bear Kyong (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kyong have the most bearers?
- Kyong is most frequently recorded in South Korea, where it is most often spelled 경.
- How common is Kyong compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Kyong is the 699th most common given name of 65,496 given names recorded there.
- Is Kyong a male or female name?
- Kyong is a female 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/kyongThe 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, “Kyong” — the 699th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.