Entry № 10072 · Korean origin

Suhyun Suhyun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO-hyun /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Excellence + brilliance (iconic AKMU + Akdong Musician)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "excellence + brilliance (iconic akmu + akdong musician)".

Suhyun is from the Korean su (수 — excellence) + hyun (현 — brilliance, virtue). Princess Suhyun — modern Korean heritage naming.

Excellence + brilliance (Korean).

The name in its native script.

수현
Transliteration
Suhyun
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuː.hjʌn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suhyun stands.

Suhyun 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.

Suhyuns before her.

Real people
Lee Suhyun (AKMU)
Korean AKMU + Melon Album of Year.
born 1999
In fiction
Suhyun
Korean excellence + brilliance.

Names connected to Suhyun.

The number behind Suhyun.

9

The Giver

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