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