Chaeyoung
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Meaning
colorful talent (worn by TWICE and BLACKPINK members)
The story
Chaeyoung is a modern Korean girls' name of two syllables, chae and young, whose meaning is fixed by the hanja a family registers rather than by the sound; common character choices yield readings like colorful talent or brightness and prosperity. Its international profile is pure K-pop: Son Chaeyoung of TWICE carries it, and Rosé of BLACKPINK was born Park Chaeyoung, which put the romanized form in front of a global generation at once. In Korea the name reads as contemporary and bright rather than classical. The US curve is empty until a first appearance in the 2020s, tracking the K-pop wave almost exactly. American parents choosing it are usually naming a connection, to family, to language, or frankly to fandom, and the name wears all three well. Chae makes an easy short form.
How popular is Chaeyoung around the world?
Chaeyoung does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Chaeyoung does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Chaeyoung deep dive
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