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Sun-hee

girl name
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
1970s/1980s
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

virtuous and joyful (a grandparent-generation name, still given as a middle name to honor an elder)

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1970s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sun-hee peaked in the 1970s and the 1980s in nearly equal measure.

Names that fit alongside Sun-hee

Suk-Yee Young-hee Ji-hye Eun-hye Aimee Simone

The Sun-hee deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Sun-hee 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 Sun-hee fits with your family’s names and surname.

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