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Young-ja

girl name · Korean origin · 3 syllables

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.

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