Kwang-ho
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
1960s/1970s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
bright and grand; a solid grandfather-generation name, now usually kept as a middle name honoring an elder
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1960s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kwang-ho peaked in the 1960s and the 1970s in nearly equal measure.
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