Entry № 3917 · Korean origin

Gwansun Gwansun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GWAN-soon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Korean independence martyr (1919 March 1st Movement)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "korean independence martyr (1919 march 1st movement)".

Gwansun (관순) — "crown obedience." Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920) was the Korean independence activist who at just 16 led the Aunae Marketplace protest during the March 1st Movement of 1919 against Japanese colonial rule. The "Korean Joan of Arc" — her statue stands at her birthplace; her face appears on commemorative stamps.

Subject of the 2019 Korean film A Resistance.

Korean Joan of Arc.

The name in its native script.

관순
Transliteration
Gwan-sun
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡwɑːn.suːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gwansun stands.

Gwansun does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gwansuns before her.

Real people
Yu Gwan-sun
Korean independence martyr.
1902 – 1920
In fiction
Gwansun
A Resistance.
2019 film

Names connected to Gwansun.

The number behind Gwansun.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gwansun reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.