Entry № 4405 · Korean origin

Hyuna Hyuna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HYOO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Worthy / cleverness (Hyuna, Korean solo K-pop icon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Korean)

A name that means "worthy / cleverness (hyuna, korean solo k-pop icon)".

Hyuna (현아, 賢娥) is from the Korean hyun (worthy, wise) + na (graceful) — a common Korean given name. "Bubble Pop!" (2011) was the first Korean solo female song to be banned by Korean broadcasters for sexual content — and went viral globally, earning over 130 million YouTube views (one of the earliest K-pop viral hits internationally). Lifestyle brand HYU-N (2024 launch).

Worthy / cleverness (Hyuna, Korean solo K-pop icon) — a Korean name.

The name in its native script.

현아
Transliteration
Hyeon-A
Pronunciation
/ ˈhjuː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hyuna stands.

Hyuna 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.

Hyunas before her.

Real people
Kim Hyuna
Korean K-pop solo artist.
born 1992
In fiction
Hyuna
Various Korean drama.

Names connected to Hyuna.

The number behind Hyuna.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hyuna reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.