Entry № 9955 · Other origin

Soyoung Soyoung — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-YUNG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bright garden"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "bright garden".

Soyoung is from the Korean 소영 (Soyoung — so small/precious + young glory/brightness — small bright one, precious glory). Soyoung is one of the Korean feminine names — central to traditional Korean Confucian heritage.

Bright garden (Korean).

The name in its native script.

소영
Transliteration
Soyoung
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈjʌŋ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Soyoung stands.

Soyoung 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.

Soyoungs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Soyoung
Korean small bright one.

Names connected to Soyoung.

The number behind Soyoung.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Soyoung reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.