Chul-soo
Meaning
firm and excellent in common hanja readings. The textbook everyboy of mid-century Korea, paired with Young-hee in school primers for decades and now firmly a grandfather-generation name; the -soo ending dates its bearers as precisely as -jun dates today's boys.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Chul-soo has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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