Min-soo
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
1960s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
clever and excellent in common hanja. The everyman boys' name of Korea's 1970s and 80s cohorts and the first mass generation of the min- pattern; so common in its day that Korean textbook examples and skits reach for Min-soo the way American ones reach for John.
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1960s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Min-soo peaked in the 1960s.
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