Ji-hye
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
wisdom (also the everyday Korean word for wisdom). The signature girls' name of Korea's 1980s and 90s birth cohorts, roughly what Jessica is to Americans of the same age, and the fuller form the ji- wave later shortened into names like Ji-ah and Ji-woo.
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ji-hye peaked in the 1970s.
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