Jeon: meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Jeon comes from Korean.

How it developed

From Korean 전.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Jeon through the years

Babies since 1880: 10; 10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year: 1999; 5 babies
2025: 0; Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20: —; Too few births to compare

Jeon in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1999–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 141 as a first name in 2020; 4,928 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Jeon’s family of names

In English usage, Jeon as a surname has a related form in Chun. In English usage, Jeon as a surname has a related form in Chun. In Korean usage, Jeon as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 전.

Walk Jeon’s family in the name graph

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Chunvariant · English

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

전in another script · Korean

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Jeon

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Jeon, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Jeon’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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