Yeon
given name · Korean · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yeon is a given name, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Korean and English, written in the Latin script.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 1.5K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 29K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈52K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 239 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
102K records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Yon in KR South Korea, US United States, MY Malaysia and 9 more, Yan in HK Hong Kong and Yoen in CR Costa Rica.
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.
Attested in 1 language 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 | #77 | 34,850 | 27K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 37K | Yon | 193 |
| US United States | — | 11,354 | 60K rec. | 1 in 29K | 17K | Yon | 239 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,082 | 0 rec. | 1 in 15K | 3.1K | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,105 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Yon | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,387 | 2.3K rec. | — | listed | Yon | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,160△ | 192 rec. | 1 in 43K | 1.2K | — | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | 895 | 1.4K rec. | — | 1 | Yeon | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | 784 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Yon | 60 |
| IN India | — | 653△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 2M | 653 | — | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 410 | 434 rec. | — | — | Yon | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 307 | 773 rec. | — | 56 | Yeon | 10 |
| CN China | — | 302 | 92 rec. | — | — | Yeon | 24 |
Roughly 35K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). 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●
- Korean29K52%
- English15K28%
- 2.5K5%
- Spanish2K4%
- Vietnamese1.4K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 29,041 | 52% |
| English | 15,307 | 28% |
| 2,507 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 2,018 | 4% |
| Vietnamese | 1,377 | 2% |
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●
- Seonjo of Joseonb. 1552KRnot in their usual name14th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- Hyeonjong of Joseonb. 1641CNnot in their usual name18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
- Jon Hong-yonb. 1992KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean footballer
- Suhr Chae-yeonb. 1996KRSouth Korean figure skater
- Park Yeon-junb. 1997KRSouth Korean figure skater
- Lee Yeonb. 2004KRSouth Korean Go Player
- Yun WangCNnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-8619-0455)
- Yun LiGBnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID: 0000-0002-6575-1839
- Yun Hon ChongGBnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Yun LiuGBnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID: 0000-0003-1630-4052
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 747 | #13,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 403 | #55,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 394 | #52,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 230 | #77,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 191 | #13,021 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #11,726 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,743 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #30,640 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 11 | #2,823 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #24,249 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 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 · 52 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yeon?
- We estimate roughly 52 thousand people bear Yeon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yeon have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 35 thousand people bear Yeon in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yon.
- How common is Yeon compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Yeon is the 77th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- Is Yeon a male or female name?
- Yeon 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/yeonThe 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, “Yeon” — the 77th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.