Entry № 10117 · Korean origin

Sun-hee Sun-hee — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOON-hee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Kind beauty (Korean)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "kind beauty (korean)".

Lee Sun-hee (born 1964) is the legendary Korean singer often called the "National Voice of Korea."

Used widely across Korea.

Kind beauty. The Korean.

The name in its native script.

순희
Transliteration
Sun-hee
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuːn.hi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sun-hee stands.

Sun-hee 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.

Sun-hees before her.

Real people
Lee Sun-hee
Korean singer.
born 1964
In fiction
Sun-hee
Heroine of Lisa See's The Island of Sea Women.
2019

Names connected to Sun-hee.

The number behind Sun-hee.

9

The Giver

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