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Sooyoung

gender-neutral name
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

long life or excellence plus flower or glory in common hanja combinations; hanja vary

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sooyoung has stayed below the US top-1000 the whole time: a genuinely rare pick.

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A personal letter, not a list: where Sooyoung truly comes from, how it traveled, its century in real records, and, if you have grown a tree on nametree, exactly how it reads against your family and your last name. Add a note and it is not just quoted back at you: it changes the texture of the analysis, what the letter weighs, what it examines, what it argues with.

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