Jihoon
Meaning
wisdom and brightness
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jihoon has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Jihoon deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Jihoon truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Jihoon fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Jihoon travels
Korean · wisdom and merit in common hanja readings. Usually romanized solid as Jihoon rather than Ji-hoon in the US, and a flagship of the ji- pattern that has led Korean boys' naming since the 2000s; the strong two-beat sound reads cleanly to English speakers with no nickname needed.
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