Young-ja
Origin
Korean
Syllables
3
Peak era
1970s/1980s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
flourishing child; a Japanese-colonial-era generation name (the "-ja" ending borrowed from Japanese "-ko") once extremely common, now mostly kept as a grandmother's middle name
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1970s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Young-ja peaked in the 1970s and the 1980s in nearly equal measure.
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