Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Won isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Won through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 102
- 102 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,802 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,802 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,981 as a first name in 2020; 4,486 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.
Won’s family of names
In English usage, Won as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Korean form 원.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Won
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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