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