Won
A Korean name that barely exists in Poland: only about two dozen people carry it, nearly all of them men. In Korean it reads as "origin" or "first".
Won Pronunciation
Won is pronounced VON (/vɔn/).
What Won means
Where Won comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
"Won" reaches Polish name lists from Korean, where it is written with more than one Chinese character. One is 元, read as origin or first. Another is 圓, meaning round, a full circle. The English gloss, origin and first, sits close to that first character.
The Korean currency, the won, took its name from that same round character, 圓. A coin and a child can share the syllable. A Korean bearer often carries Won as one half of a two-syllable given name, paired with an element that turns its sense.
In a Polish class register, Won stands apart from the Zuzannas and Kacpers. No diminutive follows it here. What it offers is a compact meaning: a beginning, and the round wholeness the Polish gloss calls okrąg, całość.
How many people are named Won
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Won. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9195 among male names.
Won as a middle name
Won is a first name for 23 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1428th, between Volker (34) and Alemayehu (33).
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#1426 Romain34
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#1427 Volker34
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#1428 Won34
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#1429 Alemayehu33
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#1430 Amit33