Entry № 11751 · Korean origin

Yejin Yejin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YEH-jin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Talent and treasure"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "talent and treasure".

Son Ye-jin (born 1982) is the South Korean actress, star of Crash Landing on You.

Talent and treasure. Crash Landing on You.

The name in its native script.

예진
Transliteration
Ye-jin
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɛ.dʒɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yejin stands.

Yejin 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.

Yejins before her.

Real people
Son Ye-jin
Korean actress.
born 1982
In fiction
Yejin
Common in K-dramas.

Names connected to Yejin.

The number behind Yejin.

9

The Giver

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