Ji-hye

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

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ji-hye has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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