Young-hee
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
1960s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
flourishing joy in common hanja. The textbook everygirl of mid-century Korea, printed beside Chul-soo in decades of school primers and known worldwide since the Squid Game doll; the -hee ending marks the grandmother generation as clearly as -ah and -eun mark today's girls.
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1960s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Young-hee peaked in the 1960s.
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