Entry № 9392 · Korean origin

Seondeok Seondeok — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SUN-duk /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"First reigning queen of Silla"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Korean)

A name that means "first reigning queen of silla".

Seondeok (선덕여왕, 595-647) was the 27th ruler of Silla — the first reigning queen of any of Korea's Three Kingdoms.

First reigning queen of Silla — a Korean name.

The name in its native script.

선덕
Transliteration
Seondeok
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʌn.dʌk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Seondeok stands.

Seondeok 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.

Seondeoks before her.

Real people
Queen Seondeok
27th ruler of Silla.
595 – 647
In fiction
Seondeok
Queen Seondeok drama.
MBC 2009

Names connected to Seondeok.

The number behind Seondeok.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Seondeok reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.